Welcome to 2021 Health Class

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What is health?

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Health: the overall well being of you body, mind, and relationships with other people 

Types of health

Physical health: how well your body functions​

Mental health: the state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings ​

Emotional health: how you react to events in your life, your mind is alert, you can learn from your mistakes, and recognize your achievements​

Social health: how well you get along with others, have loving relationships, respect the rights of others, give and accept help​

Wellness: ideal level of health 
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Common Terms 

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​Life expectancy: the number of years a person can expect to live​

Quality of life: the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life​

Goals: a result that a person aims for and works hard to reach ​

Risk factors: any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome​

Habits and behavior: habits and behaviors are repeated so often that they become almost automatic​

Influences: anything that can affect your decisions, habits and behaviors​

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What impacts our health related decisions?

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Culture: What we learn from people in our community

Friends and people at school: What we hear from others

Advocacy: using communication to influence and support others in making positive decisions​, could be public speakers or public service announcements

Advertising: any effort to sell you products or services

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We can set personal goals that improve health

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​To make sure your goals are clear and reachable, each one should be SMART:
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• Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
• Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
• Achievable (agreed, attainable).
• Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
• Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).