INSTRUCTOR RESOURCE AND

INSTRUCTOR RESOURCE AND

SUPPORT MANUAL

Health: The Basics

TWELFTH EDITION

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1 Accessing Your Health Overview This chapter will help lay the foundation for good health and positive behavior change. The terms health and wellness are used interchangeably to describe the entire dynamic process of fulfilling one’s potential in the physical, social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and envi- ronmental dimensions of life. Multiple 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 an understanding of how behavior change occurs and how one can improve their health behaviors. A major focus 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 Outcomes 1.Describe the immediate and long-term rewards of healthy behaviors and the effects that your health choices may have on others.

2.Compare and contrast the medical model of health and the public health model, and discuss the six dimensions of health.

3.Identify the modifiable and nonmodifiable personal and social factors that influence your health; discuss the importance of a global perspective on health; and explain how gender, racial, economic, and cultural factors influence health disparities.

4.Compare and contrast the health belief model, the social cognitive model, and the transtheoretical model of behavior change, and explain how you might use them in mak- ing a specific behavior change.

5.Identify your current risk behaviors, the factors that influence those behaviors, and the strategies you can use to change them.Lecture Outline I.Why Health, Why Now?A.Choose Health Now for Immediate Benefits 1.Subtle choices including sleep, smoking, and drinking can impact your well-being, academic performance, driving, immune functioning, and mood.

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• Choose Health Now for Long-Term Rewards
• The choices you make today are like seeds: Planting good seeds (health) and nurturing

them along the way (healthful choices) mean you’re more likely to enjoy the fruits of good health, including not only a longer life, but higher quality of life. On the other hand, poor choices increase the likelihood of a shorter life, illness, addiction, and other problems.

• Life Expectancy
• According to current mortality rates, the average life expectancy at birth in the

United States is projected to be 78.8 years for a child born in 2013.

• Life expectancy has increased significantly over the past 100 years, largely because

our susceptibility to infectious disease has changed.

• Leading causes of death have now shifted to chronic diseases such as heart disease,

cerebrovascular disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory diseases.

• Advances in diagnostic technologies and medications have continued the trend of

increasing life expectancy into the twenty-first century.

• Life expectancy in the United States is several years below that of many nations due

to many complex factors.

• Healthy Life Expectancy
• Healthful choices increase your healthy life expectancy, the number of years of full

health you enjoy, without disability, chronic pain, or significant illness.

• Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a multidimensional concept that includes

elements of physical, mental, emotional, and social function.

• Closely related to HRQoL is well-being, which assesses the positive aspects of a

person’s life, such as positive emotions and life satisfaction.

• Your Health Is Linked to Your Community
• Our personal health choices affect the lives of others because they contribute to na-

tional health and the global burden of disease.

• For example, along with its associated health problems, obesity burdens the U.S.

health care system and the U.S. economy with direct medical costs and indirectly through reduced tax revenues.

• Direct and indirect costs are also associated with smoking, excessive consumption

of alcohol, and use of illegal drugs.

• At the root of this issue is an ethical question: to what extent should the public be held

accountable for an individual’s unhealthy choices? Should we require individuals to somehow pay for their poor choices?

• We already tax cigarettes and alcohol at a higher rate, and some states exclude

things like candy and sweetened soft drinks from tax exemptions for food items.

• Others argue that smoking, drinking, and overeating should be treated behaviors

that require treatment, not punishment.Key Terms: mortality, life expectancy, chronic disease, healthy life expectancy, health- related quality of life (HRQoL), well-being

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Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. CHAPTER 1 Accessing Your Health 3 II. What Is Health?

• The definition of health has evolved throughout history.
• Models of Health
• Our current model of health has broadened from a focus on the physical body to an

understanding of health as a reflection not only of ourselves, but also of our communi- ties.

• Medical Model
• The medical model focused primarily on the individual and his or her tissues and

organs, and the surest way to improve health was to cure the individual’s disease.

• Public Health Model
• The public health model views diseases and other negative health events as a result

of an individual’s interaction with his or her social and physical environment.

• Recognition of the public health model enabled health officials to prioritize hygiene

and sanitation as being integral to health.

• By the 1940s, progressive thinkers began calling for even more policies, programs,

and services to improve individual health and that of the population as a whole.

• The World Health Organization defines health as “the state of complete physical,

mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.”

• Health promotion includes policies and programs that promote health behaviors

known to support good health.

• Health promotion programs identify people engaging in risky behaviors (those that

increase susceptibility to negative health outcomes) and create environments con- ducive to positive behavior change.

• Wellness and the Dimensions of Health
• René Dubos defined health as “a quality of life, involving social, emotional, mental,

spiritual, and biological fitness on the part of the individual, which results from adaptations to the environment.”

• This concept of adaptability became key to our overall understanding of health.
• Later, the concept of wellness enlarged Dubos’s definition of health by recognizing

gradations of health.

• To achieve high-level wellness, a person must move progressively higher on a con-

tinuum of positive health indicators. Those who fail to achieve these levels may slip into illness.

• Today health and wellness are often used interchangeably to describe the dynamic, ev-

er-changing process of trying to achieve one’s potential in the six interrelated dimen- sions of health.

4. The dimensions of health include:

• Physical health (body size and shape; ability to perform activities of daily living).
• Social health (ability to have satisfying interpersonal relationships).
• Intellectual health (ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze critically, use

brainpower to meet life’s challenges).

• Emotional health (the ability to express and control appropriate emotions).
• Spiritual health (having a sense of meaning and purpose in your life).
• Environmental health (an appreciation of the external environment and the roles

individuals play to protect and improve environmental conditions).

• Achieving wellness means attaining the optimal level of well-being for your unique

limitations and strengths.

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