Life management skills

1.5 Constructing Your Health Decisions
1. For your assignment you will organize information to include influences on your health, a family member’s health or the health of another person.
Be sure to include: at least two examples of different influences by media, technology, or public policy on you, your family, or community the effect of these influences on everyone’s health the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health.
2. Use the organizer below to help you brainstorm your ideas.
3. Once you have organized your ideas, you will create and submit an essay, PowerPoint, video, or collage as your final project.
PROJECT ORGANIZER

A. Example one of Media, Technology, or Public Policy (pick one) influencing health is
B. __The media, everything from television, radio, and film to games, advertising and social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, can have significant impacts on individual and population health. Exposure to media, especially among youth, may affect health behaviors such as substance use, sexual activity, and eating habits._______________________________________________________________
C. What type of effect has it had on health?
The more sexual content that kids see on television, the earlier they initiate sexual activity, the more likely they are to regret their early sexual experiences, and the more likely they are to have an unplanned teen pregnancy.
There is a strong casual connection between youth exposure to violence in the media and violent or aggressive behavior or thoughts.
Children are exposed to nearly 300 alcohol commercials per year. In comparison to more than 80 percent or movies depict alcohol use.
The motives movie characters convey for smoking can adversely affect adolescents’ real-world smoking risk.____________________________________________________________

A. Example two of Media, Technology, or Public Policy (pick one) influencing health is __Technology is being incorporated into every part of modern day living Such as IPods And MP3 players _________________________________________________________________
B. What type of effect has it had on health? ___They are all-over as mobile phones among the younger generation, but Ipods and MP3 players are putting people’s hearing at risk. Nearly 70 percent of 18-24 year olds and 72 percent of 25 to 34 year olds suffer from hearing disorders, or ringing in their ears.________________________________________________________________

What is the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health? ___Become a powerfully positive person, and empower yourself by taking responsibility of your health and fitness._______________________________________________________________

Essay: If you have chosen to write an essay, complete your writing below.
Media, Technology, and public policy all 3 of those influence your health by a lot. But mostly media and technology Media takes a huge part of influencing your health. The media, everything from television, radio and film to games, advertising and social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, can have significant impacts on individual and population health. Exposure to media, especially among youth, may affect health behaviors such as substance use, sexual activity, and eating habits. Media has various effects on health such as the more sexual content that kids see on television, the earlier they initiate sexual activity, the more likely they are to regret their early sexual experiences, and the more likely they are to have an unplanned teen pregnancy. There is a strong casual connection between youth exposure to violence in the media and violent or aggressive behavior or thoughts. Children are exposed to nearly 300 alcohol commercials per year, in comparison to more than 80 percent or movies depict alcohol use. The motives movie characters convey for smoking can adversely affect adolescents’ real-world smoking risk. Technology takes the second most important part of influencing your health. Technology is being incorporated into every part of modern day living, such as certain age groups having their hearing destroyed by MP3 or IPods. They are all-over as mobile phones among the younger generation. But IPods and MP3 players are putting people’s hearing at risk. Nearly 70 percent of 18 to 24 year olds and 72 percent of 25 to 34 year olds suffer from hearing disorders, or ringing in the ears. There’s only one step to having the responsibility for enhancing one’s health, which is become a powerfully positive person, and empower yourself by taking responsibility of your health and fitness.