HSC 086 - High School Health

• Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
• Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behavior.
• Demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and serviced to enhance health.
• Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
• Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
• Demonstrate the ability to use goal’setting skills to enhance health.
• Demonstrate the ability to practice health and nutrition-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
• Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
• Foster responsibility regarding sexual relationships, including addressing abstinence, resisting pressure to become prematurely involved in sexual activity, and encouraging the use of contraception and other sexual health measures.
• Provide learners with an opportunity to explore and assess their own values, to increase self-esteem, create insights concerning relationships with others, and understand their obligations and responsibilities to self and others.
• Help learners develop important interpersonal skills - such as communication, decision-making, assertiveness, peer refusal skills - to create more satisfying and healthy relationships.
• Provide learners with information about human sexuality and relationships, including but not limited to the topics listed above under “Sexuality.”

1. HIV/AIDS Prevention Education (as required yearly in grades 5-12 by the AIDS Omnibus Act).
2. Sexual Health Education (as required by Healthy Youth Act); take anonymous Healthy Youth Survey (ESD 123)
   • love and intimacy expression in appropriate ways
   • exploitative or manipulative relationships
   • individual values and showing respect for people with different values
   • owning responsibility for and understanding the consequences of their own behavior
   • Effective communication with family, friends, and partners
   • talking with a partner about sexual activity before it occurs, including sexual limits (their own and their partner’s), contraceptive and condom use, and meaning in the relationship
   • reproductive health and disease prevention regardless of gender
   • when to seek health help
3. Harassment, intimidation, and bullying
4. CPR card and Food Handler’s Safety
5. Nutrition requirements; nutrition planning to physical performance and body composition; healthy and unhealthy eating patterns
6. Physiological and psychological changes; hereditary factors affecting growth, development, and health
7. Personal health practices and communicable and non-communicable diseases
8. Types of abuse and risky behavior; addiction and dependency and the impact on the individual, family, and society
9. Legal implications of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use; treatment options and recovery processes
10. Career opportunities in health