Dimensions of Health 1HEW

Physical Health refers to our body and its functions. It essentially means to be without serious illness or injury. Which of the following wouldn't be considered a serious illness or injury?

• Breaking your arm playing sports

• Requiring medical care 24/7 for an existing condition

• Struggling to touch your toes while doing Yoga poses

• Being diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Answer explanation

Yep! Not being able to touch your toes while doing yoga might be a bit annoying, but can be fixed with some solid practice and isn't considered to be a serious illness or injury.

With that said, good flexibility and proper functioning of the body will help to improve your physical health!

As with all health concepts, it works on a continuum where you have good, optimum physical health at one end, and poor physical health at the other. If your health is optimum, it would be safe to assume you don't have any major illness or ...

(a)  

Answer explanation

Injury, illness or disease can all impact physical health. REMEMBER, you can have an injury, illness or disease and be okay, but it does affect your physical health and prevents it from reaching that optimum level.

Mental health refers to our ... what?

• cognitive health

• our eye health

• our ear health

• our overall health in regards to how we function in our day to day lives.

Answer explanation

Cognitive health refers to the function of our brain. It does connect to our emotional health, but it's important to remember that they are NOT the same thing.

What is an example of good mental health

• Good problem solving

• Bad information recall

• Good humour

• Good knowledge of healthy food

What is social health?

• The health of our school gossip groups

• The health of our relationships which can include: family, friendships, teachers, mentors, leaders in our community

• The amount of followers I have on instagram

• The amount of TikTok's I have that went viral last year.

Spiritual health refers to our values and ...

(a)  

Answer explanation

Our values and beliefs can be influenced by a lot of different things.

It's all about having a purpose, and how you find that purpose will be different to how someone else finds that purpose.

Our ... health is influenced by all other dimensions of health. Our social, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions will impact our ... health in various ways.

(a)  

Answer explanation

It's important to remember that your physical health will influence or is influenced by your other dimensions of health.

Which of the following is an example of your physical health NOT being valued?

• You don't see the point in exercise and certainly don't aim to achieve the Australian Physical Activity Guidelines

• You only run 3 times per week instead of 4 because you want adequate rest

• You signed up to the gym and frequently go

• You eat a really balanced diet and try to be active whenever time allows it.

Answer explanation

Physical activity not being valued is an example of your spiritual health harming your physical health.

The Australian Guidelines for Physical Activity suggest that people aged 5-17 should aim for ... minutes per day of moderate to vigorous activity.

(a)  

Answer explanation

Do you think you hit 60 minutes per day, every day?

Which of the following is NOT an example of moderate to vigorous physical activity.

• Going to the gym and training your upper body

• Walking at the brisk pace for 45 minutes

• Watching my mates kick the footy at lunch

• Riding my bike to school from Nightcliff

Answer explanation

Watching your mates kick the footy is great but you're not very active while it's happening.