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Objectives

Describe the broad goals of Healthy People 2010.

Identify three steps you can take to meet your personal health goals.

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Make a connection between the number of “Yes” answers and how responsible you are about your health.

Quick Quiz How many of these statements accurately describe your behaviors?

I exercise at least three times a week.

I set aside some time each day to relax.

I get about eight hours of sleep each night.

I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

I always wear a seat belt when riding in a car.

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• Healthy People 2010 has two broad goals.

Healthy People 2010

• Increase the years of healthy life for each American

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

• Healthy People 2010 includes a set of smaller goals aimed at reducing risky health behaviors.

• A major focus of this effort is on prevention-taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes.

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The graph shows causes of death for young people in the United States.

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There are three steps you can take to help meet your personal health goals

• gaining awareness

• gaining knowledge

• building skills

A Healthy You

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You must first be able to recognize a health problembefore you can do anything about it.

Gaining Awareness

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• The next step is to learn about the problem.

• Most importantly, you need to learn about risk factors, especially those related to behavior.

Gaining Knowledge

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Knowledge isn’t very useful if you do not have theskills to apply it.

Building Health Skills

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Analyzing Influences An important skill for promoting health is recognizing the influence culture, media, and friends have on your health habits.

Building Health Skills

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Accessing Information You need to know how to find and evaluate health information.

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Communicating Good communication skills allow you to resolve conflicts.

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Making Decisions Making wise decisions is key to protecting your health.

Building Health Skills

• This skill teaches you to consider your values.

• Your values are the standards and beliefs that are most important to you.

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Setting Goals

Building Health Skills

• The goals you set help you translate knowledge into behavior.

• Once you set a goal, you can develop an action plan—a series of specific steps you can take to achieve the goal.

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Practicing Healthful Behaviors You need to develop strategies for maintaining healthy behaviors and reducing risky behaviors.

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The skill of advocacy involves using communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions.

Advocacy

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A person with health literacy has the ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve his or her health.

Achieving Health Literacy

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Vocabulary

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

values The standards and beliefs that are most important to you.

action plan A series of specific steps you can take to achieve a goal.

advocacy The use of communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions.

health literacy The ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve one’s health.

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