Personal Health and Wellness Ch. 1 Overview & Objectives PDF

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Overview: Ch. 1 This chapter will help lay the foundation for good health and positive behavior change. Health encompasses the entire dynamic process of fulfilling one’s potential in the physical, social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and environmental dimensions of life. Wellness means achieving the highest level of health possible in several dimensions. Several factors contribute to the status of one’s health, many of which are within a person’s control. To be healthy, one must make decisions about when to maintain current healthy behaviors and when and how to change unhealthy ones. Chapter 1 provides a basic understanding of the concept of health, describing the six dimensions of health and helping the reader to understand how they relate to form a dynamic process of achieving one’s potential. A major focus of Chapter 1 is the decision-making section and the self-assessment of one’s health. Chapter 1 sets the tone for the remainder of the book.

Learning Objectives 1. Describe the immediate and long-term rewards of healthy behaviors and the effects that your health choices have on others. 2. Discuss what Healthy People 2020 is and the determinants of health that this document aims to influence. 3. Compare and contrast the medical model of health and the public health model, and discuss the six dimensions of wellness. 4. Identify several personal factors that influence your health and classify them as modifiable or non-modifiable. 5. Explain how aspects of the social and physical environment influence your health. 6. Discuss the importance of a global perspective on health, and explain how gender, racial, economic, and cultural factors influence health disparities. 7. Compare and contrast the health belief model, the social cognitive model, and the trans-theoretical model of behavior change. 8. Identify your own current risk behaviors, the factors that influence those behaviors, and the strategies you can use to change them.

Questions to Consider: 1. What is your definition of health? What factors in your life have influenced this

definition? How might these factors change in the future? 2. How do you think the six dimensions of health relate to one another? How do they fit together in your life? 3. Discuss the major gender differences between men and women as they relate to health issues. 4. Describe the major contributors to health disparities in the United States. 5. Were you aware of the top ten causes of death for Americans ages 15–24? Why do you think they are so different from the top ten causes for all ages and races combined? What changes can you make to lower your risks for major diseases? 6. Provide examples of predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors that might influence the decision of a young college student deciding whether to drink and drive. 7. Describe how factors of the Health Belief Model might affect a young woman deciding to smoke her first cigarette and her last cigarette. 8. Can you think of an example of how your family or significant others have affected your health behaviors? Was the influence positive or negative?...