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Title: Health Styles

Presenter's Name: David White, EdD

Content Area: Preparatory

Session Number: 2

Materials/Resources Needed:
Handout: "You Hear It All Time"
Homework: "How Is Your Health" Self-Survey
PowerPoint: "Health Is More Than Just Transportation"
Online Interactive: "Health Styles: Approaches To Health"

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"Healthful Living" Objectives Met:
  Preparatory:
1.1  Define and compare the terms: health wellness, happiness, fitness and vitality.
1.2  Define each dimension of health.
1.3  Estimate a person's health status on each dimension of health.
2.1  Describe the major determinants of health.
2.2  Justify "individual choice" as the health determinant that has the most influence on Americans.
2.3  Explain why all people are at least partly interdependent in regard to health

FOCUS and/or REVIEW
"My first question to you today is: how do you take care of your car? (Student Response) I've observed that people take care of their cars in different ways. Some folks "drive 'em till they drop." What's an example of this? (SR) Others practice "preventive maintenance" like having the oil checked regularly, tires rotated, etc. And then there are those few form whom the car is much more than transportation. These folks cherish their cars. Any examples? (SR)"

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
"Today we will talk about how the way people view their health can be compared to these ways people take care of their cars."

TEACHER INPUT
Relate the three car care styles to the three approaches to health: Traditional, Preventive and High Level Wellness.

TRADITIONAL Approach = "Drive it 'till it breaks"

Concerned only when signs and symptoms of illness or disease exist.
Relies on physician for cure or treatment
Evolved from communicable disease era
Does not work well in dealing with current major determinants of health.

PREVENTIVE Approach = "Maintenance"

Focuses on disease to determine risk factors.
Works to reduce risk factors to eliminate or minimize potential for disease
Focus is more negative or disease-oriented, with many "do not's" and "should not's" to avoid negative consequences.

HIGH-LEVEL WELLNESS Approach = "True Car-Lover"

Attempts to move the person from a neutral to a higher level of health.
Focuses on signs of health rather than on signs of illness or disease.
Indicates that the key to wellness is responsible individual choice regarding behaviors associated with the major determinants of health including: smoking, activity, diet, alcohol and other drug use, stress, weight management, accident prevention, sexuality, disease management, and environmental risks
Stresses a balance in all the dimensions of health. (physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual)
Establishes a positive approach to health and life.

GUIDED PRACTICE
Distribute "You Hear It All the Time" handout. While answering the first two items with the students, explain directions for completing the handout. Allow students several minutes to complete the remaining items and then discuss each item in class.

TEACHER INPUT (cont'd)
Compare the leading causes of death in 1900 with the leading causes of death today. Discuss how the traditional concept of health is not appropriate for today's problems.

Identify health-related behaviors that are known to increase risk of death and disease. Ask students to identify which of these behaviors are generally related to personal choice. Emphasize the role of individual responsibility.

Discuss how our health is related to the decisions others make about their health-related behaviors. Have students give examples (injured in a car crash caused by a drunk driver, passive smoking)

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
For homework, have students complete "How is Your Health--A Self Survey" handout. Discuss student results as the focus activity for the next focus group session.

CLOSURE
"Today we have seen that there are different approaches to health and that High Level Wellness approach is the most effective approach in dealing with the health problems that face us today. We have discussed the role of individual responsibility, and how our health status is, to some extent, dependent upon others."

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