Health Behavior – Using three personal health behaviours

Gulf Shores High School Health Behavior Questions

Using three personal health behaviours:

Diet 

Sleep

Personal hygiene .

Students must cover the following points for each (5 marks each):

Describe the personal health behaviour (1 mark) and include an appropriate image to support (1 mark)

Give an example of a negative effect on health the behvalour can cause (1 mark)

Explain two ways to improve the personal health behaviour (2 marks) .

For this task you will create an information pack exploring health behaviours for disease prevention.

You must include the following points:

Explain what personal health behaviours are (1 mark) 0 .

Read the two case studies and answer the below questions for each (2 marks each)

Can you identify one personal health behaviour that has an impact on the person?

Can you suggest one way to improve their health behaviours ? .

Case study 1: Zeinab has a very stressful job. During the day she feels very tired. She works long hours in a busy office, and sometimes she only gets 4-5 hours sleep during the night. Zeinab has a team of staff who can help her with some of her workload, but she doesn’t ask them to do it.

Case study 2: Reem is a 20 year old student. She does not have much time for social or physical exercise activities and is sat down most of the day. She eats a healthy balanced diet but when she got weighed, she was classed as overweight