...Axia College Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Physical health focuses on the outward appearance of a person like their physique, body size, and shape. An activity that reflects this dimension in my life is exercise. Exercise or some form of physical activity has become a very important part of my life after about five years ago packing on some unwanted pounds after the birth of my last child. I try to incorporate at least one hour of physical activity in my day five days out of the week. Social health: Social health can refer to a person’s ability to have interactions with others or adapt to a social situation. To help with maintain my social health a few close friends and I dedicate one Saturday out of the month to ladies day/night out. This is a day when we can get away from our spouses and children for a few hours and just enjoy good conversation between girlfriends. Intellectual health: Intellectual health can refer to the ability to think clearly and use your brain power. I believe I use intellectual health in my daily life, especially at my job. When making decisions on appropriate codes to use when reviewing medical charts it requires me to think...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: I try to make time for exercise each day. I also try to eat food that promotes good physical health. Several years ago I was about 40 pounds overweight. I was able to put together a plan that made time for exercise daily and helped me make better decisions on the things that I was going to eat. With continued encouragement from family and friends I have been able to keep the weight off. By continuing to exercise and eat right I can reach my physical heath potential. Social health: Having good relationships with friends, family, and coworkers is very important to me. Developing good connections with people in all facets of my life has given me opportunities to use my talents and skills to help others in times of need. This has also given me people of various back grounds and skill sets to reach out to when I am in need of assistance. Intellectual health: Clearly thinking, reasoning objectively, and critical analyzing are a part of my daily job activities. Throughout the day I must make decisions that not only affect me, but affect many people around me. These decisions affect the people that work for...
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...Center and Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet The Life Resource Center (LRC) is a valuable free tool available to University of Phoenix students. Taking some time to explore this website to discover some of the many topics, resources, and tools available is a great way to find information to enhance health and wellness. Log on to the student website. Click on the Programs tab at the top of the page, and then click on Life Resource Center under Services. Explore the resources available on the site and use them to answer the following questions. 1. What are the three ways that students may receive counseling services through the LRC? Online, by telephone, or in person 2. What heading are the Health Tools and Health Challenges found under? Thriving 3. What are the five categories on the Live Healthy Page? How healthy are you, lifestyle change, physical fitness, prevention and screening, and tips for healthy living. 4. Where are resources and articles about good nutrition found on the LRC? Under the thriving heading, then under health tools 5. What are three of the health topics that can be found on the LRC? Children’s health, men’s health, and women’s health 6. What are two categories found under the Medical Care heading? Dental care and first aid 7. Where on the LRC would a person find information on addiction and recovery? Under the balancing heading 8. Where on the LRC would a person find information about health issues related...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Exercising and eating healthy is very vital to all my organs for an optimal performance of my physical body. Even though I do not smoke or consume alcohol, I still have a fear of developing illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart diseases etc if I don’t exercise and eat healthy. It has been a challenge for me to stick to a strict regime of exercising. I feel if I don’t incorporate exercise in to my life it will affect my ability to perform my daily living activities if I should become a victim to such diseases. My body will not be as easily responsive to normal chores and it will limit my physical performance. Social health: Not being physically fit and succumbing to any disease will be a huge hindrance to my social health. It will have a negative impact on my personal relationship with my family in the sense that they may feel I am taking time away from their lives to cater to my needs which I am unable to do for myself. I will be unable to attend social gatherings to interact with people and will definitely be unable to adapt to social situations such as attending a wedding, parties, community...
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...Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: I need to have a healthy diet, exercise and get plenty of sleep. I’ve been working hard on drinking water and giving up pop. Physical health includes characteristics such as body size and shape, sensory activity and responsiveness, susceptibility to disease and disorders, body functioning, physical fitness, and recuperative abilities. Social health: I have a lot of friends and family members that I do activities with. I belong to my choir at my church. Social health refers to the ability to have satisfying interpersonal relationships, including interactions with others, adaptation to social situations, and appropriate daily behavior. Environmental health: I conserve water with my new energy efficient washer. I save the trees by recycling paper. Environmental health refers to an appreciation of the External environment and the role individuals play to preserve, protect, and improve environmental conditions. Intellectual Health- I learn from my mistakes. I attend school every week. This improves me as a person. Intellectual health refers to the ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze critically, and use brain power ...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Physical health relates to our bodies, like exercise and diet. Social health: Social health relates to how we are capable of relating to other people, like being capable of making a bond with another human being. Intellectual health: Intellectual health relates to being able to make intelligent decisions, learn from mistakes made, or being able to solve problems with critical thinking. Environmental health: Environmental health, in my opinion, relates not only to our external environment, but how we appreciate, and maintain our internal environment as well. But to provide an example of our external environment, I will point out the efforts many cities have made to prohibit smoking outdoors, or in restaurants. Emotional health: Emotional health relates to how we handle ourselves in situations, for example knowing how to control your temper with someone who is purposely trying to make you angry. Another example would be the trust that is shared between people in the military when they are deployed. Spiritual health: Spiritual health relates to one’s beliefs in something beyond just that...
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...Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: In regards to physical health, I am quite aware of susceptibility to certain pre-determined diseases that run in my family. Alcoholism runs in my family, and has caused extrmemely adverse side effects to those who continued to partake in drinking. Therefore, I do not drink at all, which is good for my physical and mental health. Your physical health is also determined by your body size and shape, and your physical fitness levels. Social health: I believe that social health is not comparable from one individual to the next. I personally do not ever go out, rarely socialize, immensely dislike crowds or ever large groups of people, but feel socially healthy. I can carry on a conversation with anyone, at any point in time, regarding almost anything, but just prefer to be either by myself, my children or with my fiancée. Although social health is defined as the ability to adapt easily to social situations, and good interactions with others, I believe everyone is different in what are enough social interactions for themselves. Intellectual health: I believe my intellectual health is quite well established and healthy. Part of this is due...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Physical health in my life is being able to make it to the gym at least three days out of the week, or even taking walks to make sure that I do not become over weight. Social health: Everyone needs someone. I like being able to talk to people. I have my boyfriend whom I live with, and my family. I also talk to people all day at work, it really makes me feel like I am needed and loved. I don’t feel alone. Intellectual health: I like to play Brain Age because it helps me exercise my brain. I read once in a health magazine, that keeping your IQ up and solving problems even if they are basic helps contribute to your intellectual health. A lot of people do word search and Sudoku. Environmental health: Environmental factors around you. I live in the city, so there is a lot of smog and pollutants from cars and people leaving their trash everywhere. Making sure that your house is clean, which I am OCD about, contributes to our environmental health as well. Emotional health: I tend to stress. I like to find ways to manage that like reading a book, or even writing. Lately I have picked up painting. My job can...
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...Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Body shape and size is what reflects in my life. I have been struggling with my weight for some time now. Before I had children I was always at the gym eating healthy. Once I had my children I stop going to the gym and not eating healthy. When I start to eat healthy and excise see that I lose a few pounds. I stop doing all the right things and gain all the weight back. Social health: Interpersonal relationships. I am a people person I love to have conversations with everyone I meet. I like to get to know people from different place around the word. I make it a goal at least once a week to meet someone new. If I am just standing line at the store or waiting in the doctor’s office. I am an all around social butterfly. Intellectual health: Analyze critically. I for one analyze almost everything. I think that is one of my worse traits. I analyze almost everything before I do something such as cutting my hair making sure that I don’t cut it to short. Because if I cut it to short I will not be able to put it up in a nice hair do. Environmental health: Improve environmental conditions. I think that improving the environment is very important...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Physical activity, being in the army reserves doing physical activity is basically my own task no one is here forcing me to do it, so I have a membership at Anytime Fitness and I try to go to work out every day but sometimes things seem more important and I don’t work out on those days but I do believe that working out and staying in shape is a big part of overall health. Social health: I believe that everyone should have friends that they can confide in and go out and have fun with them, I do have friends that I go out and go to a football game or go to a movie so I can have fun in my life. But one thing that’s lacking is someone to actually have intellectual conversations with and do research about stuff that interest us, but I am an introvert I like having fun but I do need my time to recharge my batteries so to speak, basically time to myself alone to recharge. Intellectual health: Intellectual health increasing of knowledge and always challenging my self to increase my mental capacity is really what I am always doing I have always prided myself In knowing facts and science equations over the average person...
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... Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Body Weight. In order to maintain a proper body weight I plan a healthy diet and remain active by exercising. Social health: Simple courtesy for others. I exercise my social health by being courteous to others on any chance that I have in daily life. Simple things like opening a door or saying, “Excuse me.”, in a crowded situation are active practices of excellent social health. Intellectual health: Balancing home, work, and college life. I feel that how I am able to manage my home, work, and college life is an excellent example of intellectual health. From being able to manage all the decisions that go with the time constraints associated with this busy life, and still satisfy all groups involved means I am effectively using my intelligence to help make effective life decisions. Environmental health: Appreciation of wildlife and plant life. I feel a great appreciation for the indigenous species of wildlife and plant life in my environment. I often admire both forms and feel great appreciation for how they have helped us all sustain life over the years on this planet. Emotional health: Controlling...
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... Tamara Seiger Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Body shape and size: This is very important to me because obesity runs in my family and I am very avid on making sure that my kids don’t follow in my footsteps. Social health: Interactions with others: I am a very social person. Not like going out partying or friends social. Like, I’m easy to talk to and can get into conversations with people I don’t know. I can’t make it through a store without someone telling a life story. I don’t even start most of the conversations. Intellectual health: Analyzing Critically: I am pretty big on the concept of live and learn. I like to do research and ask advice and make my own rational decision based on the conclusions. Environmental health: Improving the environment: I love a beautiful world. I recycle and make sure that my kids don’t litter. I tell them you wouldn’t want to come to a park with trash all over, so make sure you do your part and clean up. Emotional health: Trust: This is hard for me to do. I can’t seem to trust many people, especially my husband, but it’s not his fault, it’s my past that makes me not trust. Spiritual health: I don’t not believe in...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: As of right now eating healthy is part of my physical health. Since I am currently over eight months pregnant I am focusing on eating healthy and once the baby is born I will focus on exercise to better my physical health. Social health: Being open and honest with my family and friends is a way I work with my social health. This is a healthy way to keep and form relationships with them and new people I come into contact with. Intellectual health: During my scheduled class time I have made for myself I am working my brain to use my intellectual health. I sometimes have to critically think and dig deep into my thoughts to bring out information to help educate others as they do the same for me. Environmental health: Living in the state of New York recycling is the law so by doing so I am keeping my environmental health stable as well as helping the Earth to stay healthy. Emotional health: Sometimes my pregnancy hormones try to get the best of me, so I must learn to stay calm and convey them in a more appropriate way. Talking about things is a way to get things off my chest and relieve stress in a healthy...
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...Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Weight Control- controlling my weight so that the older I get the less problems I will have physically getting around. Social health: Respect for yourself and others- to have a healthy relationship with your partner or your friend you need to respect yourself and them. Intellectual health: Ability to learn- use of one’s mind to create a greater understanding & appreciation of oneself & others. Environmental health: Recycle-helps keep our environment safe and free of harmful things. Emotional health: Control Stress-it’s not healthy to stay stressed out. Spiritual health: Church- beliefs along with regular practices of worship. Part 2 In approximately 125 to 200 words, describe health and wellness in your own words using the ideas and concepts for each of the six dimensions of health. It is very important to stay active and watch your weight to maintain good physical health. Daily exercise can decrease any problems that might occur if you’re over weight. Socially you would need the respect yourself and others to maintain any relationship. If you don’t have respect you can’t seem to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in Health for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: I try to exercise when I can I definitely need to improve my physical health. Social health: hanging out with my best friend and being honest is a huge stress reliever. So I think my social health is okay. Intellectual health: I read several hours a day. I believe this makes me stronger intellectually. Environmental health: Keeping my environment clean and happy is a must. Emotional health: I try to not keep so much bottled up inside. Reading I have found that it keeps me emotionally stable. Spiritual health: I do not have a religion. I believe you do good and good will come to you. I try to treat people the way I want to be treated. I do not pray or meditate. Part 2 In approximately 125 to 200 words, describe health and wellness in your own words using the ideas and concepts for each of the six dimensions of health. I believe that your overall health is reflects your physical, social, intellectual, environmental, emotional, and spiritual health. If you have and maintain all six dimensions of health, than you are creating a healthy life for yourself. When you take care of yourself...
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