Health Risks and Your Behavior

In this PowerPoint, you will Learn About… What risk behavior is.

What cumulative risk is.

How to avoid health risk behaviors.

Health Risks and Your Behavior

The Vocabulary terms in this lesson are: Risk behaviors.

Consequences.

Cumulative risks.

Subjective.

Objective.

Prevention.

Abstinence.

Risk Behaviors

An important part of taking responsibility for your health is identifying and avoiding risk behaviors – actions or choices that may cause injury or harm to you or others.

Risk behaviors can lead you into taking unnecessary risks.

Risk Behaviors

It is important to realize that your behavior can affect the health of others as well as your own health.

Consequences of Health Risk Behaviors

Risk behaviors may lead to a variety of consequences.

PhysicalFinancial

Legal

Mental/EmotionalAcademic Social

Cumulative Risk

Cumulative risks are related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.

Risk + Risk + Risk = Much Greater Risk

Riding a bicycle without a helmet, for example, is one risk factor.

Riding on a busy street and in the rain greatly increases your chances of injury.

Knowing the Risks

Teens have different reasons for taking risks. The reasons represent subjective thinking.

When considering risks, it is much better to use objective information.

Objective information helps you act responsibly so that you can prevent injuries and illnesses.

Reducing and Avoiding Risks

An effective strategy to reduce risks or even avoid them entirely is to practice prevention.

Being on the lookout for hazards, or potential sources of danger, is an important part of prevention.

Another key element of prevention is abstinence. Abstaining from risk behaviors can help you avoid the serious consequences associated with them.

Shield Yourself from Risk

Keeping Yourself Healthy

Most injuries are caused by poor decision making. By acting responsibly and avoiding risk, you can prevent most injuries.

By practicing good health habits, you can also prevent many illnesses.

Thinking Critically

Imagine that you are getting to know a group of new friends. Tell how you would decide whether these friends were going to be a positive or negative influence on your health.

Vocabulary Review

Risk behaviors are actions or choices that may cause injury or harm to you or to others.

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Consequences are the results of actions.

Consequences are what happens.

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Cumulative risks are related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.

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Subjective means that the idea comes from a person’s own views and beliefs, not necessarily from facts.

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Objective information means the information is based on facts.

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Prevention means taking steps to make sure that something does not happen.

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Abstinence means not participating in unsafe behaviors or activities.