INFLUENCES ON HEALTH

INFLUENCES ON HEALTH Target: I will be able to understand the different types of factors affecting one’s health.

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Influences on Your Health:1. Heredity-all the traits that are passed along biologically from both parents to child

Eye color, hair color, body size and type, etc.

Basic Intellectual abilities Tendencies toward specific diseases

Ex: Diabetes, some cancers, asthma, high blood pressure, muscular dystrophy 

2. Behavior: The way you choose to act within your environment and inherited abilities.

Includes: Taking responsibility for your health

and life Making positive choices and decisions

Wear Sunscreen Exercise/Eat healthy Avoid drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol Replace batteries in smoke detectors Ex: Practice Abstinence: Restraining

oneself from indulging in something (Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol).

3. Media: Advertisements, Commercials, Technology,. Music.

4. Environment: The sum total of your surroundings- Your family, where you grew up, where you live now, the conditions in which you leave, and all of your experiences.

Types of Environments1. Physical Environment- Your physical environment can affect all areas of your health. • Positive Environmental Influences:• Parks, Jogging Paths, Recreational

Facilities• Access to quality Health Care Facilities• Low crime Rates

• Negative Environmental Influences:• Quality of air and water• Exposure to: Radiation, the sun, toxic

waste, diseases, asbestos, lead, carbon monoxide, and loud noises.

• High Crime Rates• Poor Access to Medical Care

 

2. Social Environment• Includes:• Eating habits• Hygiene habits• Ability to share feelings• Peer pressure (smoking, drugs, alcohol use, sex)

3. Cultural Environment: the arts, beliefs, and customs that make up a way of life for a group of people; passed from generation to generation. • Includes:• Eating habits, Alcohol use• Preferred Language• Traditions, Religion• Values: a person's principles or

standards of behavior; what’s important in life.

 Summary:

INFLUENCES ON ME

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1. Choose one of the 4 influences on Health (Heredity, Behavior, Media, Environment). 2. Draw an advertisement or cartoon depicting how it affects your health?

*Use a minimum of 4 colors*