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Chapter #1
Accessing Your Health
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Why Health, Why Now?
Choose health now for immediate benefits.
Choose health now for long-term benefits.
Personal choices influence life expectancy.
Personal choices influence healthy life
expectancy.
Choose health now to benefit others.
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Top Ten Reported Impediments to
Academic Performance
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Personal Choices Influence Life
Expectancy
Life expectancy has almost doubled over the
last 100 years, moving from about 47 years
in the early 1900s to over 78 years for a
child born in 2010. In 1900, 40%+ of all deaths were children
under age 5.
Infectious disease was a leading cause ofthese deaths.
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What Is Health?
Is health just the absence of disease?
Is health being in good physical shape and able to
resist illness?
The medical model views health status on both theindividual and a biological or diseased organ
perspective.
The public health model views health as a result of
the individual's interactions with the social and
physical environment.
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Health and Wellness
Health
Being sound in body,
mind, and spirit.
The ever changing processof achieving individual
potential in the physical,
social, emotional, mental,
spiritual and
environmental dimensions
Wellness
Purposeful, enjoyableliving.
A deliberate lifestylechoice
The achievement of thehighest level of health
possible in each of thedimensions
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The Wellness Continuum
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The Dimensions of Health
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The Dimensions of Health
PhysicalHealth
Good physical fitness andconfidence in one’s personal ability
to take care of health problems.
Includes: eating right, getting regular exercise andbeing at your recommended body weight.
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The Dimensions of Health
Emot ional
HealthEmotional health refers to both ourability to express emotions – that is,
to our feelings and our thoughts.
Includes: can cope with unpleasant emotions and
not be overwhelmed by them. ie; self-esteem, self
confidence, trust, and love.
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The Dimensions of Health
Spir i tual
Health
The ability to identify one’s basic
purpose in life and to achieve one’s full
potential; the sense of connectedness
to a greater power.
For some it is the practice of religion, for others it is
understanding their purpose of life.
It includes: living according to one’s ethics, morals, and
values.
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The Dimensions of Health
Soc ial Health The ability to interact effectively withother people and the social
environment, to develop satisfying
interpersonal relationships, and to
fulfill social roles.
Includes: having the respect for others, has supportive
relationships and expresses needs to others.
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The Dimensions of Health
Intellectu al Health Using “brain power” effectively to meet
challenges and the ability to think clearly
and to reason objectively
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The Dimensions of Health
Environmenta l
Health
The impact your world has on your
well-being and the appreciation of the
external environment and one’s role to
preserve, protect, and improve its
conditions
Has a clean and un-crowded living space. Recycles
used paper, glass products and aluminum.
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Healthy People 2020 Goals
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventabledisease, disability, injury, and premature death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
improve health in all groups. Create social and physical environments that
promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and
healthy behaviors across all life stages.
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Healthy People 2020
Determinants of Health
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Four Leading Causes of Chronic
Diseases in the United States
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What Influences Your Health?
Economic factors: disadvantages include lackingaccess to quality education; living in poor housing;
being unable to pay for nourishing food, clothes,
shoes; not being able to afford utilities,
medications, etc.
Having insecure employment, or being stuck in a
low-paying job with few benefits
Having few assets to fall back on
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What Influences Your Health?
The built environment –
improvements proposed includesidewalks, bike lanes as part of
every federally funded road
project
Availability of supermarkets
selling fresh foods instead of
side-by-side fast-food outlets in
inner-city neighborhoods
Pollutants and infectious agents
in the air we breathe, our land,
water, and food
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What Influences Your Health?
Policymaking –
policies that ban smoking, lawsmandating seat belt use in vehicles and helmets on
bikes, policies that require you to be vaccinated before
enrolling in classes, and laws that prohibit drinking
and driving and cell phone use while driving
Health services – access to quality health care,
including counseling and mental health services;
access to information and products such as eyeglasses
Health disparities –
defined as preventable
differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence,
or opportunities to achieve optimal health
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The Challenge of Health
Disparities Dramatic health disparities exist among people of certain
racial and ethnic backgrounds.
The number of people uninsured or underinsured is large
and growing.
Men and women experience major differences in rates ofdisease and disability.
Economic status can influence health.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender individuals may lack
social support and may be denied health benefits due tounrecognized marital status.
Disabled individuals may lack services that would enhance
their life quality.
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How Can You Improve Your
Health Behaviors?
Change is not easy.
To successfully change a behavior, you need to see
change as a process that requires preparation, has
several steps or stages, and takes time to succeed.
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Models of Behavior Change
Three different types
The health belief model
The social cognitive model
The transtheoretical model
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The Health Belief Model
Developed by Rosenstock in 1966
Health behavior change is more likely if
There is a perceived seriousness of the health
problemThere is a perceived susceptibility to the health
problem
There are cues to action
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Social Cognitive Model
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Social Cognitive Model
Three factors interact in a reciprocal fashion to promote behavior change
Social environment in which we live
Our inner thoughts and feelingsOur behaviors
We change our behavior in part by observing
models in our environment.
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Transtheoretical Model
Pre-contemplationstage
Contemplation
stage Preparation stage
Action stage
Maintenance stage
Termination stage
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Precontemplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance Termination
Consciousness raising
Social liberation
Emotional arousalSelf-reevaluation
Commitment
Rewards
Countering
Environmental control
Helping relationships
The Stages of Change and
Some Change Processes
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What Are The Stages Of Change?
Pre-
contemplat ion
Individuals have no intentions of
making a change in the next six
months.
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What Are The Stages Of Change?
Contemplat ion Individuals are aware they have a
problem behavior and are
considering changing within the
next six months.
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What Are The Stages Of Change?
Preparat ion Individuals intend to change a
problem behavior within the next
month.
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What Are The Stages Of Change?
Act ion Individuals are modifying theirbehavior according to their plan.
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What Are The Stages Of Change?
Maintenance Individuals have continued towork at changing their behavior
and have avoided relapse for at
least six months.
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What Are The Stages Of Change?
Terminat ion Often after two to five yearsbehaviors can become so
deeply ingrained that a person
cannot imagine abandoning it.
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Steps to Behavior Change
Step 1: Increase your awareness
Step 2: Contemplate change
- Identify a target behavior
- Learn more about the target behavior- Assess your motivation and readiness to
change
- Develop self-efficacy and cultivate an
internal locus of control
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Steps to Behavior Change
Step 3: Prepare for changeSet a realistic goal: a realistic goal is one that you
truly can achieve.
Anticipate barriers to change that may includeOverambitious goals
Self-defeating beliefs and attitudes
Failing to accurately assess your current state of
wellness
Lack of support and guidance
Emotions that sabotage your efforts and sap your
will
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Steps to Behavior Change
Use the SMART SystemUnsuccessful goals are vague, open-ended;
successful goals are SMART.
S pecific Measurable
Action-oriented
R ealistic
Time-oriented
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Steps to Behavior Change
Enlist Others as Change Agents
The social-cognitive model recognizes the
importance of social contacts, including watching
others change successfully (modeling).
Family members
Friends
Professionals
A signed contract
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Steps to Behavior Change
Step 4: Take action to change
Visualize the new behavior
Learn to counter by substituting a desired behavior
for an undesired behavior Control the situation
Change your self-talk
Reward yourself
Journal
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Are you ready to change an
unhealthy behavior?
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