Taking Responsibility for your Health

Definition: Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes.

• Prevention

• Values

• Action Plan

• Health Literacy

Definition: a series of specific steps you can take to achieve a goal.

• Prevention

• Action Plan

• Advocacy

• Health Literacy

Definition: using communication to influence and support others.

• Prevention

• Action Plan

• Advocacy

• Health Literacy

Definition: the ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve your own health.

• Prevention

• Action Plan

• Advocacy

• Health Literacy

What are the two broad goals of Healthy People 2010?

• Increase the years of healthy life for each American.

• Increase the years of healthy life for everyone on the planet.

• Eliminate differences in health based on race, ethnic group, or income.

• Eliminate differences in health based on gender and skin color.

Select the steps to meeting your Personal Health Goals (May be more than one).

• Gain Awareness

• Gain Knowledge

• Make an Action Plan

• Build Skills

All of these are health skills identified in our studies, except...

• Analyzing Influences

• Accessing Information

• Communicating

• Making Decisions

• Seeing a Medical Professional.

All of these are Health Skills identified in our studies, except...

• Setting Goals

• Practicing Healthful Behaviors

• Exercising

• Advocacy

Define the problem, explore the alternatives, consider the consequences, identify your values, decide and act, evaluate the results. These are all steps in what process?

• DECIDE

• Health Skills

• Health Action Plan

• DECIDE FOR YOURSELF

Who is responsible for your health?

• You

• You x2

• You x3

• YOUR ARE!!!!!