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Section 1.1 What Is Health?

Objectives

Describe two factors that can be used to evaluate overall health.

List three aspects of overall health.


Explain how the choices that people make can affect their positions on the health continuum.

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Health Stats The graph shows data on the average life span of people in the United States.

How did the average life span change from 1900 to 2000? What are some possible reasons for this trend?

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Health refers to the overall well-being of your body, your mind, and your relationships with other people.

Health Today

Life ExpectancyThe number of years a person can expect to live is called life expectancy.

Quality of Life• Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a

person gets from life.

• High quality of life can be a person’s goal.

• A goal is a result that a person aims for and works hardto reach.

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• To achieve a high quality of life, a person must work hard to improve all aspects of health.

Aspects of Health

• The aspects of health that are important to overall well-being are physical health, mental and emotional health, and social health.

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Physical Health• Physical health refers to how well your body

functions.

• A healthy diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and proper medical and dental care are all important for physical health.

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Mental and Emotional Health• The state of being comfortable with yourself, with

others, and with your surroundings is called mental health.

• Emotional health refers to how you react to events in your life.

• A healthy diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and proper medical and dental care are all important for physical health.

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Social Health• Social health refers to how well you get along with

others.• Building healthy relationships with family and friends

is important for social health.

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Health in the Balance

Materials

Cut out a cardboard triangle that is 8 inches on each side. Label the sides of the triangle “Physical Health,” “Mental and Emotional Health,” and “Social Health.”

In this activity you will create a mobile that balances the three aspects of health.

cardboard • scissors • pen or pencil • magazinesglue • string • tape

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Cut pictures from magazines that show healthy activities.

Glue each picture onto cardboard. Use string and tape to attach each picture to the appropriate side of the triangle.

Hang the mobile from the center string to see how well it balances.

Carefully punch a small hole through the center of the triangle. Thread a piece of string through the hole, then tie a knot.

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How well did the mobile balance? In your life, are your physical, social, mental, and emotional health in balance? Explain.

Think and Discuss

Describe some things you could do to improve each aspect of your over all well-being.

Describe each of the activities in your mobile and explain how it contributes to physical, social, or mental and emotional health.

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A Continuum of Health

Defining a ContinuumA continuum (kun TIN yoo um) is a gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.

A Health Continuum• One end of the continuum represents poor health (illness).

Movement Along the ContinuumMany of the choices you make on a daily basis affect your position on the health continuum.

• The other end represents perfect, or ideal, health (wellness).• Wellness is a state of high-level health.

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A Continuum of Health

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Vocabulary

health The overall well-being of your body, mind, and your relationships with other people.

life expectancy The number of years a person can expect to live.

quality of life The degree of total satisfaction that a person gets from life.

goal A result that a person aims for and works hard to reach.

physical health The aspect of health that refers to how well your body functions. When you are physically healthy you have enough energy to carry out everyday tasks.

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Vocabulary

social health The aspect of health that refers to how well you get along with others.

continuum A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.

wellness A state of high-level health.

emotional health The aspect of health that refers to how you react to events in your life. You are emotionally healthy when the feelings you experience are appropriate responses to events.

mental health The state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings.

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