Health 1.1

Lesson 1.1

Health and Wellness Fundamentals

Classroom Discussion: Stressed, Sick, and Now What?

When you started this school year, you had lots of energy and felt great after a break filled with volunteering and seeing friends.

Now that you are halfway through the school year, however, you feel stressed out and tired most days. No matter what you do, it seems like you cannot keep up with studying and all of your homework.

You are not getting enough sleep and eat mostly chips, convenience store foods, and fast food on the go. Because you are so busy, you feel irritable and do not enjoy activities with your friends. When you are not with your friends, you stay home and feel sad and overwhelmed.

Lately, your grades have been slipping, and you think you might be catching a cold. After school, you talk with the school nurse, who recommends you see a doctor.

Classroom Discussion: Stressed, Sick, and Now What?

1.What are the different challenges you are facing in this scenario? List these challenges and explain how the different challenges relate to each other.

2.What steps could you take in this situation to begin resolving these challenges? Where would you start? How would resolving one challenge affect challenges in other areas of your health?

Video Intro

Dimensions of Health

The World Health Organization (WHO), an international organization that promotes health across the world, defines health as not just the absence of disease, but as a of complete physical, mental and emotional, and social well-being. Well-being refers to a person’s ability to function positively and overall satisfaction that life’s present conditions are good.

Multiple Select

Well-being refers to a person’s ability to function _____ and overall _____.

• positivity

• satisfaction

• happiness

• pleasure

Dimensions of Health

Dimensions of Health

To achieve health, people practice wellness. While often used synonymously with health, wellness refers to the process of identifying one’s state of health and taking steps to improve it. Wellness is different for each individual. Steps that will help you to achieve well-being and your full potential may be different from the steps taken by your friends.

Multiple Choice

To achieve health, people practice.. ?

• happiness

• wellness

• fitness

• wholeness

Physical Health

Physical health is the area of health that refers to how your body functions.
If you have a physically healthy body, your body allows you to participate in
the activities of daily life. You can cope
with the stresses of disease injury,
and aging and maintaining an active
lifestyle. In other words, being physically
healthy enables you to do more than walk
to school or lift a bag of books.

Physical Health

Like all areas of health, physical health exists on a spectrum. Having a disease, for example, does not mean a person cannot be physically healthy in other ways. Someone who has a disease or disability can still maintain physical health by eating nutritious foods, getting plenty of physical activity and avoiding hazardous substances.

Multiple Choice

If you have a physically healthy body, your body allows you to participate in
the activities of daily life

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Like all areas of health, physical health exists on a ____

• level

• scale

• spectrum

• chart

Mental and Emotional Health

Mental and emotional health refer to the health of your internal life- the thoughts and feelings that cross your mind and influence your decisions. Compared to other
areas, these areas of health may not be as visible from the outside. Without taking steps to promote your mental and emotional health, however, it is impossible to reach a state of well-being.

Multiple Select

_____ and _____ health refer to the health of your internal life

• Physical

• Mental

• Social

• Emoti

Mental and Emotional Health

Mental and Emotional Health

Mental health describes how you observe and interpret information. It affects your ability to make decisions, solve problems, and examine situations. For example, a person who is mentally healthy can think clearly, critically, and optimistically, even in challenging circumstances.

People who are mentally healthy also enjoy exploring new ideas and excel at learning, adapting, and growing. In contrast, people with mental health conditions might be unable to identify the root of a social problem and may think badly about themselves instead of solving the problem.

Mental and Emotional Health

While similar to mental health, emotional health refers to how you express yourself and your
thoughts and feelings. Your emotions, mood, feelings about yourself, and way of viewing the
world are all parts of your emotional health. People who have a positive emotional health express their thoughts and feelings clearly and cope well with stress.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not a part of emotional health?

• emotions

• feelings

• hunger

• mood

Social Health

Can you imagine your life with no human interactions? It is unhealthy for humans to live in isolation, without relationships to provide them support. Humans are social animals who must interact and communicate with one another. Social health is the dimension of health that refers to how well you get along with other people.

Social Health

Having positive social health means having enjoyable, supportive, and healthy relationships with family members, friends, dating partners, and people in
your community. Health relationships
make you feel good about yourself and are characterized by trust and
honest communication.

Social Health

Unhealthy relationships make you feel bad about yourself. Any relationship that causes you harm is also unhealthy. You should never be harmed or threatened by friends, dating partners, family members, or any other
people in your lives!

Multiple Choice

Unhealthy relationships will not make you feel bad about yourself

• true

• false

Interaction of Health Dimensions

The physical, mental and emotional, and social dimensions of health interact with and affect each other. A disturbance in one dimension of health may lead to a disturbance in another. Likewise, an improvement in one dimension may lead to improvement in others.

Interaction of Health Dimensions

For example, suppose someone who is physically fit and eats well also has the mental illness known as major depressive disorder. When people have major depressive disorder, their emotional health suffers, but the condition also impacts other dimensions of health. People with major depressive disorder may feel less motivated to eat properly (physical health). They may have difficulty concentrating (mental health) and distance themselves from their friends and family members (social health).

The Continuum of Health

In Japan, women born today are expected to live to 86 years of age. In Kenya, women are expected to live to 65 years of age. Are women in Japan healthier than women in Kenya? In the US , children die before five years of age at twice the rate in Germany. Are Children in Germany healthier than children in the US? How long people are expected to live, or life expectancy, is just one of the many ways to measure health. Other ways of measuring health include life span, which is the actual number of years a person lives, and quality of life, or extent to which a person experiences a healthy, happy, and fulfilling life

Multiple Choice

In Japan, women born today are expected to live to the age of?

• 90

• 32

• 55

• 86

The Continuum of Health

When measuring health and well-being, people often think that being healthy and being unhealthy are totally different. In this model, you are either healthy or you are not. This is not an accurate model for describing health. A person’s health status normally lies somewhere between the extremes of poor and excellent. This range in health status is called a continuum.

The Continuum of Health

The Continuum of Health

At one end of the continuum lies optimal health. Optimal health is a state of excellent physical, mental
and emotional, and social health. People want their health status to be at the higher end. At the opposite end lies illness and premature (early) death. The term
illness describes an overall poor state of health. Diseases or disorders, risky behavior, hazardous substances, and poor mental or emotional health can lead to illness.

Multiple Choice

Optimal health is a state of _____ physical, mental

and emotional, and social health

• amazing

• excellent

• fabulous

• immaculate

The Continuum of Health

As a teen, you have more control over your health decisions than ever before. By taking responsibility for the factors you do control and making healthy, informed decisions, you can improve all areas of your health.

Multiple Choice

At what time in your life do have the most control over what you eat?

• Teenager

• Child

• Adulthood

• Old age