High School Health Arizona Standards

Adapt health messages and communication techniques to a specific target audience

Tailoring Advocacy Message to Audience

Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving personal, family, and community health

Collective Advocacy

Influence and support others to make positive health choices

Use accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health-enhancing message

Personal Advocacy

Ability to Advocate for Health

Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others

Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Analyze the role of individual responsibility in enhancing health

Personal Responsibility for Health

Ability to Practice Health-Enhancing Behaviors

Formulate an effective long-term personal health plan

Implement strategies and monitor progress in achieving a personal health goal

Develop a plan to attain a personal health goal that addresses strengths, needs, and risks

Health-Related Goal Setting

Assess personal health practices and overall health status

Assessment of Health

Use of Goal-Setting Skills to Enhance Health

Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions

Defend the healthy choice when making decisions

Predict the potential short-term and long-term impact of each alternative on self and others

Analyze and propose alternatives to health-related issues or problems

Justify when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate

Determine the value of applying a thoughtful decision-making process in health-related situations

Application of Decision-Making Skills to Health

Examine barriers to healthy decision making

Influences on Health Decision Making

Use of Decision-Making Skills to Enhance Health

Evaluate effective ways to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others

Asking for Help

Evaluate strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others

Self Protection and Dealing with Conflict

Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks

Utilize skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others to enhance health

Communication to Enhance Help

Use of Interpersonal Communication Skills to Enhance Health

Access valid and reliable health products and services

Analyze a situation in which professional health services may be required

Determine the accessibility of products and services that enhance health.

Use resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

Accessing Help

Evaluate the validity of health information, products, and services

Knowledge of Sources of Help

Access to Health Information, Products, and Services to Enhance Health

Analyze how public health policies and government regulations can influence health promotion and disease prevention

Influence of Public Policy on Health

Analyze how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Analyze the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors

Analyze how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Internal Influences on Personal Health

Evaluate the impact of technology on personal, family, and community health

Evaluate the effect of media on personal and family health

Evaluate how the school and community can impact personal health practice and behaviors

Evaluate how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Analyze how the culture supports and challenges health beliefs, practices, and behaviors

Analyze how the family influences the health of individuals

External Influences on Personal Health

Analysis of Factors Affecting Health Behaviors

Analyze the potential severity of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Analyze personal susceptibility to injury, illness, or death if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Compare and contrast the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of healthy behaviors

Understanding Healthy vs. Unhealthy Behaviors

Analyze the relationship between access to health care and health status

Understanding Use of Health Care

Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems

Understanding Prevention of Injuries and Health Problems

Analyze how genetics and family history can impact personal health

Evaluate levels and types of physical activity and how these promote health and contribute to disease prevention

Evaluate the impact of food and nutrition, including nutrient deficiencies on health

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated

Understanding Personal Health

Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health

Understanding Multiple Dimensions of Health

Predict how healthy behaviors can affect health status

Understand Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Health

Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts