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Taking Charge of Your Health, THis box is in your mind - Coggle Diagram
Taking Charge of Your Health
Managing consumer problems.
Resolving consumer problems
Consumer advocates- consumer union and whole seller who sell internationally.
Local, state, and federal goverment agencies protect consumers from mishaps
Better business bureau handles local merchant complaints.
Health fraud
Quackery or health frauds is advertisement of products that promise impossible things.
Fact check on there website and online.
Building Health Skills
Communication Skills
Interpersonal Communication is the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people.
Use "I" messages, communicate with respect and care, and be an active listener.
Refusal Skills: Communication strategies that can help you say no when you are being pressured to take part in activities that are bad or go against your values.
Conflict resolution: Ending a conflict through cooperation
Analyzing Influences: Stop and think about why your doing things, and what affects your decisions.
Accessing Information: Knowing how and where to access health information.
Learning Health Skills
Health skills are specific tools and strategies
maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health
Self Management Skills: Skills that help manage stress in life
Stress: The reaction of the mind and body to everyday challenges.
Advocacy: Taking action to influence others in a positive way
Making responsible decisions and setting goals
decisions goals and your health.
Values - Ideas, beliefs, and attitude about personally important things.
TO strengthen values talk about them and do them, set realistic values.
Decision making ability. the steps and thought process of making decisions.
Goal setting
Short term goal - TO do a small and easy - ish goal.
Long term goal - A goal that cant be accomplished quickly and will take numerous tasks to do.
THis box is in your mind
Being a Health Literate Consumer
Making Informed Decisions
Health consumer: Someone who purchases or uses health products
Advertising: A media message designed to interest consumers in a product. Be careful of various advertising methods
Evaluating Products
Look at Features, Warranties, Safety Lables, and Recommendations.
Comparison Shopping: Judging the benefits of different products by comparing
Product Labels contain lots of info that is useful