Your WellnessTaking Responsibility for your Health

Shows relationships among the 3 kinds of health. 1. Physical Health 2. Mental-emotional Health 3. Family-social Health

Each of these relationships forms a point on the triangle and each side supports the other

What to Know about theHealth Triangle

Physical health is the condition of a person’s body. Eat a well-balanced diet Participate in regular exercise Get at least 8 hours of sleep Take care of your personal hygiene Have regular medical and dental check ups Avoid unnecessary risks Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and drugs

Physical Health

Mental-emotional health is the condition of a person’s mind and the ways that a person expresses feelings. Face difficult situations with a positive and realistic outlook Express your feelings clearly and calmly to others Set priorities so that you can handle all of your responsibilities Use your talents effectively to achieve your goals Be patient with yourself as you learn new skills. If you make a

mistake think about how you can do better next time Accept responsibilities for your actions

Mental-emotional Health

Family-social health is the condition of a person’s relationships with family members and with others. Respect and care for members of your family Have a friendly, open attitude toward other people Pay attention to what you say and how you say it.

Body Language Be loyal, truthful and dependable Learn to disagree without arguing and show respect

for others.

Family-Social Health

What happens if one of the points of the health triangle is missing?

Expressing feelings is a skill that helps maintain which side of the triangle?

If this skill is lacking, the triangle can begin to lose its balance and the other 2 sides are affected.

What might happen to physical health? Social health? Stress. Family. Difficulty expressing your feelings. These factors diminish your health status.

Unbalanced Health Triangle

Read each story carefully. Have a group discussion on which triangle goes with the story. Then choose the health triangle that best illustrates the young person in the story. Put the stories with the correct triangle. Make sure all voices are heard and then make

a decision.

Health ChallengeThinking About Good Health

1. Health Knowledge 2. Accessing health information

3. Behaviors 4. Influences: culture, media, technology

5. Communication 6. Decisions a person makes

7. Health Advocacy Skills 8. Heredity 9. Environment 10. Random Events

Factors That AffectHealth Status

When you understand information about a health product and use it correctly, you promote your own good health and prevent disease.

Example: (Outside/ Sun Screen / Skin Cancer)

Can you think of other examples?

Health KnowledgeThe information and understanding a person

has about health.

When you access useful health information, You help yourself make decisions about products or services. You choose behaviors that will keep you healthy. A health service is help that is provided by a health-care

facility or health-care provider. If you have access to these providers quickly, your chances of

recovery are improved. A product is something that is used to restore or maintain

health. Example: (toothbrush, sunscreen, prescription drugs

Accessing Health InformationTo access something means to obtain, get, or find

what you are looking for.

2 Types of Behavior that can Affect Your Health 1. Healthful Behaviors 2. Risk Behaviors

Promotes health. Threatens health. Prevents injury, illness and Can cause injury, premature death. illness and premature death. Improves the quality of the Damages and destroys the

environment . Environment. Examples: wearing a seat belt, Examples: playing sports

without exercising regularly, and eating safety equipment, smoking and healthy foods. drinking alcohol.

BehaviorsThe way a person chooses to act or respond to

a situation.

Culture is the arts, beliefs, and customs that make up a way of life for a group of people at a certain time.

What beliefs does your family have about eating breakfast, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes?

Media are the various forms of mass communications. If you watch a TV commercial for pizza and then order one from

that shop, it is safe to say that your behavior was influenced by the advertisement.

Technology is the practical application or use of knowledge. Suppose you log on to the internet and read an article on ways to

protect yourself from violence. As a result you decide to start locking your doors of your home & car. By doing this you can conclude that your health status has been influenced by technology.

What other ways can culture, media and technology influence you?

Influences such as culture, media, and technology

Pass Right – Pass Left Topic: communication Concept: Skill of listening: This activity will show the importance of

listening and how difficult that is when you are not concentrating on what is being said because you are busy doing something else.

Method: Classroom Activity Time Frame: 10 minutes plus discussion Materials Needed: The Wright Family Story; paper clip for each student. Activity: Have the group form a circle. Give each person a paper clip. Tell

the group that you are going to read them a story and every time they hear and word that sounds like right or left, they are to pass the paper clip in their hand to the person on their right or left depending on what they heard. Start reading the story slowly so that they have a chance to catch on to what you want them to do. After a few passes stop the story and ask them how they are doing. Check to see that everyone has a button in his hand. If your group is typical, some will have 2 or 3 paper clips and others will not have any. Redistribute the paper clips and continue reading the story, faster as you go. Stop the story a couple more times to check on how they are doing.

Communication Activity

What was happening during this activity? What made the activity difficult to accomplish? What impact did what other people do have on your ability to

stay up with the story? How did you feel during the activity? What would have made the activity easier to accomplish? How hard was it to listen and pass the objects at the same time? How much of the story can you remember? How seriously did everyone take the activity? What impact did the level of seriousness have on the activity? What can this activity tell us about communication? How hard were you concentrating during this activity? How hard were the people concentration on either side of you? Describe a situation you have had where someone was not really

listening to you when you were telling them something? How did that make you feel?

Discussion Ideas

Your ability to speak clearly and listen carefully affects your relationships. This may affect your health status or the health status of others.

Example: Suppose you keep angry feelings bottled up inside you. Eventually, this choice of behaviors can have a negative effect on your health status because you still feel angry. Often, talking things out will help reduce your anger.

Communication SkillsThe ways in which a person chooses to

share feelings, thoughts and information with others.

Resistance Skills – are methods a person can use to say no to an action or situation that could damage health status. What do you do when a friend asks you to do

something you don’t want to do? Do it or resist?

Conflict-Resolution – are steps that you can take to settle a disagreement in a responsible way. Disagreement with a friend – Choose to fight or

communicate?

Communication Skills that can Affect your Health Status

Many decisions are made automatically, or are of little consequence to your health (what to wear).

Many decisions have long-term consequences. (what you choose to eat, whether you choose to smoke or drink and you choose to spend time with) are decisions that can affect your health status now & later.

Decisions Involve Choices

Responsible Decisions Irresponsible Decisions

Promote health Can harm health Keep safety in mind Result in unsafe behaviors Follow laws May be illegal Show respect for self and others Show disrespect for self

and others Follow guidelines of parents/adults Show disregard for

guidelines of parents and others

Demonstrate good character Are part of normal character development

Responsible & Irresponsible Decisions

(Need sticky notes & Chart Paper) List examples of responsible and

irresponsible decisions based on what you saw on the previous slide.

Explain how each example is related to personal health status or health status of the environment.

Behavior Choices

A health advocate is a person who influences the health behavior and decisions of others and advances certain health-related beliefs and concerns.

What other people do in your community, nation, and world affects your health status.

Illegal drug use is linked to violence, accidents, and crime. (If you become a health advocate for teens to be drug free, and more teens actually do turn away from drugs as a result of your actions, then you have helped improve the health status of people in your country.

What other examples do you have of a health advocate? Whenever you work to improve the health of others, you act as a

health advocate. At the same time, you improve your own health status.

Health Advocacy SkillsSkill used to influence the health behavior and decisions of others and to advance health-related beliefs and concerns.

Characteristics passed to you either promote your health status or do not promote your health status.

Inherited characteristics may therefore be protective factors or risk factors.

Protective factors – something that increases the odds of a positive outcome, such as healthful traits.

What happens if you engage in harmful habits, such as smoking and living on a high-fat diet.

Risk factors – something that increases the odds of a negative outcome.

When you know you are at risk for something you make choices that offset this factor.

HeredityThe passing of characteristics or traits from biological

parents to their children.

Inactivity Obesity High blood Pressure High levels of Cholesterol Stress and Tension Smoking Gender Heredity Age Which ones can you control?

Primary Health Risk Factors

Environment includes the air you breathe, the water you drink and the place in which you live.

What would be some environmental factors that might compromise your health status?

EnvironmentEverything around a person.

What would be an example of a random event?

Random EventsIs an incident over which a person has

little or no control

“Tab Book”   Materials Needed: Paper, Magazines, Colored Pencils, Glue, Scissors, Pictures, Clip Art, Pencil,

Markers   Create your own personal triangle using the information that you

learned about the Health Triangle and the self inventory you took in class (What Level is your Wellness?). Use the space below to make your plan. Label the sides of the triangle. (Physical Health, Social Health and Mental/Emotional Health)

  Brainstorm ideas on each side of the triangle and write the ideas

down. Collect photos, clip art, drawings or magazine pictures that represent your physical, social and mental health.

  Bring supplies to your next class to put your Health Triangle

together.

Health Triangle Project