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General Information
Number: HE.7.C.1
Title: Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
Type:
Standard
Subject: X-Health Education (former standards – 2008) - Archived
Grade: 7
Strand: Health Literacy: CONCEPTS
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This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
Related Access Points
This cluster includes the following access points.
Independent
HE.7.C.1.In.a
Identify the effects of healthy and unhealthy behaviors on personal health—including reproductive health—such as knowing the consequences of teen pregnancy, managing time effectively to reduce stress, eating junk foods and gaining weight, or not resolving conflicts and emotional health.
HE.7.C.1.In.b
Describe how the physical, mental/emotional, social, and intellectual dimensions of health are interrelated, such as managing time effectively (intellectual dimension) to reduce stress (mental/emotional dimension), and choosing healthy foods (intellectual dimension) to maintain a healthy weight (physical dimension).
HE.7.C.1.In.c
Identify ways environmental factors affect personal health, such as food refrigeration, appropriate home heating and cooling, water quality, and trash collection services.
HE.7.C.1.In.d
Identify health conditions that are passed from parent to child (inherited), such as sickle cell anemia, diabetes, heart disease, and acne.
HE.7.C.1.In.e
Identify ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems, such as wearing a helmet when biking or skateboarding, wearing a seat belt, following pedestrian safety laws, and avoiding handling of firearms.
HE.7.C.1.In.f
Identify how appropriate health care services can promote personal health, such as receiving immunizations prior to entering seventh grade and developing an action plan for asthma.
HE.7.C.1.In.g
Describe likely injuries or illnesses resulting from engaging in unhealthy behaviors, such as illness or death from abusing over-the-counter medications, contracting sexually transmitted diseases or infections (STD/STI) from sexual relationships, and injury or death from unsupervised handling of firearms.
HE.7.C.1.In.h
Identify that bacteria and viruses can be transmitted from one person to another and cause illness, such as HIV, Lyme’s disease, and staphylococcus infection.
Supported
HE.7.C.1.Su.a
Recognize the effects of healthy and unhealthy behaviors on personal health—including reproductive health—such as knowing the consequences of teen pregnancy, managing time effectively to reduce stress, eating junk foods and gaining weight, or not resolving conflicts and emotional health.
HE.7.C.1.Su.b
Identify how one dimension of health relates to another dimension of health, such as managing time effectively (intellectual dimension) to reduce stress (mental/emotional dimension), and choosing healthy foods (intellectual dimension) to maintain a healthy weight (physical dimension).
HE.7.C.1.Su.c
Recognize ways selected environmental factors can affect personal health, such as food refrigeration, appropriate home heating and cooling, water quality, and trash collection services.
HE.7.C.1.Su.d
Recognize common health problems that are passed from parent to child (inherited), such as sickle cell anemia, diabetes, and acne.
HE.7.C.1.Su.e
Recognize ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems, such as wearing a helmet and a seat belt, following pedestrian safety laws, and avoiding handling of firearms.
HE.7.C.1.Su.f
Recognize how appropriate health care services can promote personal health, such as receiving immunizations prior to entering seventh grade and using an action plan for asthma.
HE.7.C.1.Su.g
Identify a likely injury or illness resulting from engaging in common unhealthy behaviors, such as illness or death from abusing over-the-counter medications, contracting sexually transmitted diseases or infections (STD/STI) from sexual relationships, or injury or death from unsupervised handling of firearms.
HE.7.C.1.Su.h
Recognize infectious diseases that can be spread from one person to another, such as HIV, Lyme’s disease, or staphylococcus infection.
Participatory
HE.7.C.1.Pa.a
Recognize an effect of a healthy or unhealthy behavior on personal health—including reproductive health—such as choosing healthy foods or fast foods, getting along with others or having conflicts, and appropriate physical contact.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.b
Recognize the effect of emotional health on physical health, such as emotional stress causing physical illness.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.c
Recognize an environmental factor that affects personal health, such as having appropriate heating and cooling at school or home.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.d
Recognize a common health problem that is passed from parent to child (inherited), such as sickle cell anemia, diabetes, or acne.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.e
Recognize a way to prevent injuries and adolescent health problems, such as wearing a helmet or a seat belt, following pedestrian safety rules, or avoiding handling of firearms.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.f
Recognize a common health care service, such as receiving immunizations prior to entering seventh grade or using an action plan for asthma.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.g
Recognize a likely injury or illness resulting from engaging in common unhealthy behaviors, such as illness or death from abusing over-the-counter medications, contracting sexually transmitted diseases or infections (STD/STI) from sexual relationships, or injury or death from unsupervised handling of firearms.
HE.7.C.1.Pa.h
Recognize that illnesses can spread from person to person.
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