Healthy Living - KINE 250

Describe the immediate and long-term

rewards of healthy behaviors and the effects
that your health choices may have on others.
Compare and contrast the medical model of
health and the public health model, and
discuss the six dimensions of health.
Identify modifiable and non-modifiable
personal and social factors that influence
your health; and explain how gender, racial,
economic, and cultural factors influence
health disparities.

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 Video: 23 and 1/2 hours

A Doctor-Professor answers the old

question "What is the single best
thing we can do for our health?"
 The medical model views health status on
both the individual and 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.
Disease prevention requires actions or
behaviors to keep people from getting sick or
injured.
 World Health Organization
1947 International conference on global health
Health is the state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not just
the absence of disease or infirmity.
For the first time, health meant more than an
absence of illness.
 Health is the dynamic interaction of the individual
and his/her social and physical environment
Health is the process of discovering, using, and
protecting all the resources within our bodies,
minds, spirits, families, communities, and
environment.
Health is a dynamic, ever changing process of
trying to achieve your individual potential in the
physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual and
environmental dimensions.
 Behavioral scientist Godfrey Hochbaums
simple definition of health:

Health is what helps me be what

I want to be do what I want to
do [and] live the way I would
like to live.
 Health - Today
Average Life Span Today?
Common causes of death?
Poor Health is often associated with Behavior.
What is the relationship of Environment to
Disease today?
We make food and activity choices in
the context of our environment
Healthy Environment???
 Health Today
Mortality rates indicate people are living
longer.
Morbidity rates indicate fewer people suffer
from infectious disease.
Are people truly healthier?
Why could you answer YES?
Why could you answer NO?
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 Individual behavior: Lack of physical activity,
poor nutrition, excessive alcohol
consumption, tobacco use
Biology and genetics: Genetically inherited
traits, conditions, and disposition to diseases
Social factors: Social factors and physical
conditions in the environment

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 What else influences

Health Status?
 Economic factors:
Disadvantages include lacking access 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
 The Built Environment
Sidewalks and Bike lanes
Supermarkets selling fresh foods
Instead side-by-side fast-food outlets in inner-city
neighborhoods
Pollutants and infectious agents in the air we
breathe, our land, water, and food
 Community Design

Photo courtesy of Dan Burden, Walkable Communities

Health services
Access to quality health care,
Counseling and mental health services;
Access to health information and products

Health disparities
Preventable differences in the burden of disease,
injury, violence
Opportunities to achieve optimal health
 Policymaking
Policies that ban smoking
Laws mandating seat belt use in vehicles and
helmets on bikes
Policies that require you to be vaccinated before
enrolling in classes
Laws that prohibit drinking and driving and cell
phone use while driving
 Do you get enough sleep?
Do you wish you had better eating habits?
Do you feel stressed out too often?
Do you use tobacco products?
Do you think you get enough exercise?
Do you wear your seatbelt?
Have you been doing things when youve
been drinking that youve regretted?