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Transcript of Introduction to Health and Wellness RSS 2081 [email protected] 5 January 2011.
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Health Definitions
• Health (World Health Organization - WHO): a state of complete of physical, mental, and social well being and not simply the absence of disease.
• Health (Ottawa Charter): a resource for everyday life; a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources and physical capacities.
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Wellness (WHO, 2006)
• optimal state of health of individuals and groups
-realization of the fullest potential of an individual; physically, psychologically, socially, spiritually and economically
-fulfilment of one’s role expectations in the family, community, place of
worship, workplace and other settings
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Components of Wellness
• SEE MOPS
• Social: satisfying interpersonal relationships, interaction with others, adaptability to various social situations; includes communication skills.
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Components of Wellness
• Emotional: ‘feelings’ - ability to express emotions appropriately and control inappropriate emotions; possess a variety of feelings. Examples: self-esteem, self-confidence, self-efficacy, trust, love.
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Components of Wellness
• Environmental: stewardship of the external environment and actions taken to preserve, protect, and improve it. – Individual environment: living
conditions (e.g. air, water, safety, organization, lighting, noise, psycho-social)
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Environmental Wellness
• Biophilia: bond between people and the natural environment
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Components of Wellness
• Mental: the capacity to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze critically and use one’s brains to meet life’s challenges effectively. – Learning from successes and
failures– Making responsible decisions
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Components of Wellness
• Occupational: personal satisfaction from career and career development, and attaining work-leisure balance; workplace wellness
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Components of Wellness
• Physical: characteristics such as body size and shape, sensory acuity, susceptibility to disease an disorders, body functioning and ability to recuperate; ability to perform activities of daily living.
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Components of Wellness
• Spiritual: innermost part of an individual that helps with understanding the world and one’s role in it. – Knowledge of self and sense of purpose
– May involve belief in a supreme being and religious participation
– May involve a relationship with nature
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Health and Wellness
• http://students.sfu.ca/health/healthpromotion/wheel.html
• Together with your neighbour, list 5 health behaviours you think a wellness course will promote.
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Reasons to Take Wellness
• Apply health information to yourself during a time of transition
• Learn more about research findings pertaining to health
• Learn about accessing health information
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Reasons to Take Wellness
• Learn more about health topics and practices of others
• Learn knowledge and skills to assist others with changing behaviours
• Help validate your selection of this degree • Understand the importance of being a good
role model and reinforce your desire to do so
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National Association for Sport and Physical Education• Participating in regular physical activity at a
level sufficient to promote health-related physical fitness is an important behavior for professionals in all fields of physical activity at all levels– including coaches, K-12 teachers, physical
educators and kinesiology faculty members at higher education institutions, and fitness professionals.
– NASPE (USA) http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/
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Wellness Role Models
• Behaviour of role models influences others• Participating in regular activity is an important
coping mechanism for relieving job stress• Achieving and maintaining health-related
physical fitness is an appropriate expectation for all physical activity professionals