HE H.S.1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” ~World Health Organization, 1948
HE H.S.2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.
“The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.”
HE H.S.3:Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.
“If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.” ~Elbert Hubbard
HE H.S.4: Students will demonstrate the ability interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid health risk.
“In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.” ~Alison Rose Levy
HE H.S.5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision making skills to enhance health.
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.” ~B.K.S. Iyengar
HE H.S.6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.” ~Albert Schweitzer
HE H.S.7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.” ~Leo Tolstoy
HE H.S.8: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
“Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.” ~James H. West