Learning Outcomes

Physical

• Ability to carry out daily tasks
• Achieve fitness
• Maintain nutrition
• Avoid abusing drugs and alcohol or smoking
• Practice positive lifestyle habits

• Divide the students into groups and assign each a component of wellness.
• Ask the students to provide examples of wellness behavior in each component.

Social

• Interact successfully
• Develop and maintain intimacy
• Develop respect and tolerance for those with different opinions and beliefs

Emotional

• Ability to manage stress
• Ability to express emotion

Intellectual

• Ability to learn
• Ability to use information effectively
• Striving for continued growth
• Learning to deal with new challenges

Spiritual

• Belief in some force that serves to unite
• Provide meaning and purpose to life
• Person’s own morals, values and ethics

Occupational

• Ability to achieve balance between work and leisure

Environmental

• Ability to promote health measure that improves
• Standard of living
• Quality of life
• Influences such as food, water, and air

Well-being

• Subjective perception of vitality and feeling well
• Described objectively, experienced, measured
• Can be plotted on a continuum

Health-Illness Continuum

• Measure person’s perceived level of wellness
• Health and illness/disease opposite ends of a health continuum

Health-Illness Continuum (cont'd)

• Move back and forth within this continuum day by day
• How people perceive themselves and how others see them will affect where their placement on the continuum

Variables Influencing Health Status, Beliefs, and Practices

• Internal variables
• External variables