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National Health Standards

 

The National Health Education

Standard 1

Students will comprehend concepts related

to health promotion and disease prevention

to enhance health.

1.12.1

Predict how healthy behaviors can

impact health status.

1.12.2

Describe the interrelationships of

emotional, intellectual, physical,

and social health.

1.12.3

Analyze how environment and

personal health are interrelated.

1.12.4

Analyze how genetics and family

history can impact personal health.

1.12.5

Propose ways to reduce or prevent

injuries and health problems.

1.12.6

Analyze the relationship between

access to health care and health status.

1.12.7

Compare and contrast the benefi ts of

and barriers to practicing a variety of

healthy behaviors.

1.12.8

Analyze personal susceptibility to

injury, illness, or death if engaging in

unhealthy behaviors.

1.12.9

Analyze the potential severity of injury

or illness if engaging in unhealthy

behaviors.

The National Health Education

Standard 2

Students will analyze the infl uence of

family, peers, culture, media, technology,

and other factors on health behaviors.

2.12.1

Analyze how family infl uences the

health of individuals.

2.12.2

Analyze how culture supports and

challenges health beliefs, practices,

and behaviors.

National Health Education Standards

2.12.3

Analyze how peers infl uence healthy

and unhealthy behaviors.

2.12.4

Evaluate how the school and community

can impact personal health

practice and behaviors.

2.12.5

Evaluate the effect of media on

personal and family health.

2.12.6

Evaluate the impact of technology

on personal, family, and community

health.

2.12.7

Analyze how the perceptions of norms

infl uence healthy and unhealthy

behaviors.

2.12.8

Analyze the infl uence of personal

values and beliefs on individual health

practices and behaviors.

2.12.9

Analyze how some health risk behaviors

can infl uence the likelihood of

engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

2.12.10

Analyze how public health policies

and government regulations can

infl uence health promotion and

disease prevention.

The National Health Education

Standard 3

Students will demonstrate the ability to

access valid information and products and

services to enhance health.

3.12.1

Evaluate the validity of health

information, products, and services.

3.12.2

Utilize resources from home, school,

and community that provide valid

health information.

3.12.3

Determine the accessibility of products

and services that enhance health.

3.12.4

Determine when professional health

services may be required.

3.12.5

Access valid and reliable health

products and services.

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The National Health Education

Standard 4

Students will demonstrate the ability to

use interpersonal communication skills to

enhance health and avoid or reduce health

risks.

4.12.1

Utilize skills for communicating effectively

with family, peers, and others to

enhance health.

4.12.2

Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and

collaboration skills to enhance health

and avoid or reduce health risks.

4.12.3

Demonstrate strategies to prevent,

manage, or resolve interpersonal confl

icts without harming self or others.

4.12.4

Demonstrate how to ask for and offer

assistance to enhance the health of self

and others.

The National Health Education

Standard 5

Students will demonstrate the ability to

use decision-making skills to enhance health.

5.12.1

Examine barriers that can hinder

healthy decision making.

5.12.2

Determine the value of applying a

thoughtful decision-making process in

health-related situations.

5.12.3

Justify when individual or collaborative

decision making is appropriate.

5.12.4

Generate alternatives to health-related

issues or problems.

5.12.5

Predict the potential short- and longterm

impact of each alternative on self

and others.

5.12.6

Defend the healthy choice when making

decisions.

5.12.7

Evaluate the effectiveness of healthrelated

decisions.

The National Health Education

Standard 6

Students will demonstrate the ability to

use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

6.12.1

Assess personal health practices and

overall health status.

6.12.2

Develop a plan to attain a personal

health goal that addresses strengths,

needs, and risks.

6.12.3

Implement strategies and monitor

progress in achieving a personal health

goal.

6.12.4

Formulate an effective long-term

personal health plan.

The National Health Education

Standard 7

Students will demonstrate the ability to

practice health-enhancing behaviors and

avoid or reduce risks.

7.12.1

Analyze the role of individual responsibility

for enhancing health.

7.12.2

Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices

and behaviors that will maintain

or improve the health of self and others.

7.12.3

Demonstrate a variety of behaviors to

avoid or reduce health risks to self and

others.

The National Health Education

Standard 8

Students will demonstrate the ability to

advocate for personal, family, and community

health.

8.12.1

Utilize accurate peer and societal norms

to formulate a health-enhancing message.

8.12.2

Demonstrate how to infl uence and

support others to make positive health

choices.

8.12.3

Work cooperatively as an advocate for

improving personal, family, and community

health.

8.12.4

Adapt health messages and communication

techniques to a specifi c target

audience.

National Health Education Standards

 

 

 

 

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