Encourages a proactive stance toward maintaining health. Encompasses the physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual areas of health.
Case studies are interwoven with commentaries by health and medical experts.
Explain the five dimensions of health, the impact of lifestyle on health, and the importance of health goals. 1.1 Define health in terms of the integration and balance of the five dimensions of health. 1.2 Describe the ways in which heredity, lifestyle components, and self-efficacy affect our health today, and in the future. 1.3 Analyze the process of establishing health priorities and personal health goals. Explain stress, its physiological and psychological effects, the impact of stress on the individual, and the most common stress management techniques.