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Question 1 You will be using what you've learned in this lesson to develop a personal wellness plan to help protect yourself from both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Start by identifying controllable and uncontrollable risk factors for disease.

Question 2 Use the chart to differentiate between some of the lifelong effects of positive and negative health behaviors.

Question 3 Analyze the cost and accessibility of local health care services, including dental care.

A. Complete the chart with information about the cost and accessibility of local health care services.

B. How do you think having health insurance will impact a person's health?

C. Research cost-effective health insurance plans. Describe two plans.

D. In your situation, should purchasing health insurance be an individual decision or a collaborative decision with your family? Explain your response.

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b. Having health insurance will ensure that if a person needs treatment, they will likely receive it easily and get the proper care so that their health does not continue to get worse

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d. For me, purchasing health insurance would be a family decision because I don’t have the money to put towards that, my parents do.

Question 4 Describe the types of regular medical and dental checkups, screenings, and tests that would help you avoid disease. Getting your teeth checked and cleaned yearly

Getting your annual physical

If your family has a history of a certain disease make sure you get a screening for that certain diseases. For example, if you family has a history of breast cancer, get a mammogram to check if you might have it.

Question 5 Describe a plan for personal wellness. Include in your plan how you can help prevent disease and access health care and medical services at different stages of life. Make sure your plan is adaptable to changing health needs based on genetics, family history, and personal health behaviors.

Question 6 Your environment can affect your health. Now that you have made a personal wellness plan, consider how you can make your environment "well."

A. How do you think ideas about what is normal or good in your community influence how people treat the environment around them?

if the community you live in doesn’t project positive messages on ways to treat the earth, most likey, you won’t either. But if your community makes it a point to make sure the environment is being taken care of, you are probably more aware of your actions and will try to do your part.

B. Research at least one way that your environment influences your health and different ways that you can lessen your negative impact on and improve your environment. Describe your findings and cite your sources here.

Breathing polluted air puts you at a higher risk for asthma and other respiratory diseases. When exposed to ground ozone for 6 to 7 hours, scientific evidence shows that healthy People's lung function decreased and they suffered from respiratory inflammation.

Reduce the number of trips you take in your car. Reduce or eliminate fireplace and wood stove use. Avoid burning leaves, trash, and other materials. Avoid using gas-powered lawn and garden equipment.

C. Do you think it is important to involve health, wellness, education, safety, and business professionals in plans for improving the health of the environment? Explain your answer.

Of course! If we are only trying to enhance the health of the environment, how can we try this if we ourselves aren't to an adequate degree to try and do so? It only is sensible to try and do so; health is very important for both of us- the world and that we ourselves. It's all a link, if we are healthy, we are able to help make the world healthy, and thus have a stronger environment, which then keeps people with breathing problems healthy. Same thing applies with safety, we must be safe so as to be healthy alternatively it might just be a waste. Education is additionally important too because we must first have a particular amount of data to assist the world.

D. Develop a long-term plan describing how you can positively impact your environment. Describe your plan here.

Air pollution is typically with all the smoke from using fossil fuels, I might try not using them the maximum amount. pollution is sometimes from oil spills and garbage littered in water sources. Land pollution could be a lot from landfills, we are using most garbage it takes plenty of landfills to carry them. I might start by recycling my recyclable products and using recycled products....