10 Factors That Affect Health Status



10 Factors That Affect Health Status

1. Heredity: passing of characteristics of biological parent to their children

Protective factor- increases the likelihood of positive outcome (Longevity)

Risk factor- increases likelihood of negative outcome (Parent w/ premature heart disease)

2. Quality of environment in which a person lives: everything around a person (examples: air you breathe, water you drink, place you live)

3. Random events: an event which a person has little or no control

4. Accessing health care services and information: the kind of health care services and information available to you and the way you use it

5. Behaviors and situations a person chooses:

Healthful behavior- action person chooses that promotes health, prevents injuries, illness and premature death, and improves quality of environment (Wearing seatbelt/ working out)

Risk behavior- Threatens health, causes injury, illness, premature death, destroys environment (smoking, joining a gang, not using safety equipment, situations you surround yourself with)

Six Categories of Risk Behaviors in Teens

• Behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injury

• tobacco use

• alcohol and other drug use

• sexual behavior that result in disease/ pregnancy

• diet choice that contribute to disease

• lack of physical activity

6. The quality of the relationships a person has:

Healthful relationship - promotes self- respect, encourages productivity and health, is free of violence and or of drug misuse and abuse

Harmful relationships-opposite

7. The decisions a person makes:

Responsible- promote health, protect safety, follow laws, show respect, follow guidelines of parents and other responsible adults and demonstrate good character.

Irresponsible- opposite

8. A person’s ability to use resistance skills: skills that help a person say no to and or to lead a situation.

9. The kinds of risks a person takes - A risk is a chance a person takes that has an unknown outcome. (Positive or negative)

Calculated- a chance you take after weighing possible outcomes

Unnecessary risk- a chance not worth taking after the possible outcomes are considered

10. Degree to which a person is resilient

Resiliency - the ability to adjust, recover bounce, back and learn from difficult times.

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