La Habra High School
Foreign Language Department

Health Education Standards
HEALTH EDUCATION

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

The student will:
  • explain the relationship between personal health habits and quality of life.
  • evaluate food choices that can promote optimal health and reduce the risk of disease.
  • relate the importance of fitness and physical activity to lifelong healthful living.
  • develop and demonstrate effective communication and coping skills.
  • demonstrate appropriate strategies for dealing with stress.
  • identify and evaluate measures for the prevention and control of communicable and chronic diseases (including STDs such as HIV/AIDS).
  • identify the benefits of regular health screenings.
  • recognize the importance of breast and testicular self-examination.
  • analyze the influence of family and cultural factors on the treatment of disease.
  • understand symptoms of disease and other personal health concerns.
  • evaluate food intake for nutritional adequacy specific to one’s gender, age, and health condition.
  • recognize the benefits of prenatal care and the importance of care after the delivery.
  • recognize the importance of regularly scheduled appointments with health-care providers.
  • examine the influence of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use on performing physical tasks and making judgments.
  • select ways that reduce the risk of becoming involved in potentially dangerous situations.
  • demonstrate competencies in responding appropriately to emergencies.
  • use assertiveness technique to counteract pressures to become sexually active.
  • avoid violence through application of interpersonal life skills.
  • understand and obey rules prohibiting weapons at school and within the community.
  • understand that assertiveness and decision-making skills are useful in resolving conflicts.
  • identify ways to seek assistance if concerned, abused, or threatened.
  • understand the role that condoms play in reducing the spread of STDs, HIV, and unintended pregnancy.
  • recognize the warning signs of suicide.

INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SERVICE

The student will:
  • apply criteria for selecting health services, products, and information.
  • develop strategies for identifying and combating fraudulent health products, services, and information.
  • analyze the influence of advertising and marketing on the selection of healthful and nutritional products.
  • analyze how individual citizens and communities can promote a healthy and safe environment.

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

The student will:
  • identify the changes that occur during the various stages of life, including infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, and older adulthood.
  • describe fetal development from conception through pregnancy to birth.
  • analyze the effect that nutrition, prenatal care, and harmful substances such as alcohol or environmental hazards have on the health of the mother and developing fetus.
  • evaluate the rate of growth, maturity, and development of individuals.
  • analyze positive personal and social skills.
  • explain death and dying as a part of the life cycle (grieving process).
  • analyze weight modification practices.
  • explain how individuals experience physical, mental, emotional, and social changes at their own pace.
  • explore how self image is affected by many outside influences (e.g., media, peer pressure, family/culture).
  • evaluate problems associated with self image, including steroid/drug use, eating disorders, and dieting.
  • recognize that abstinence is the only totally effective method of contraception.
  • analyze other methods of contraception.
  • explain human sexuality and analyze the effects of social and cultural influences.
  • identify influences and pressures to become sexually active.
  • apply communication/refusal skills as they relate to responsible decision making.
  • understand how to be respectful of the sexuality of others, including personal and social characteristics of sexual harassment.

HEALTH OF OTHERS

The student will:
  • describe the importance of family communication.
  • analyze the effects of substance abuse, including tobacco use, and its impact on the family.
  • investigate and analyze responsibilities of healthful parenting.
  • compare the roles of specific family members.
  • become a wise consumer.
  • interact effectively with a diverse population (including both males and females and members of different ethnic and cultural groups).
  • demonstrate respect for all people
  • understand the components of a healthy relationship.
  • describe the role of a responsible citizen.
  • demonstrate ways to advocate responsibility for the environmental health of the school and community.
  • examine how laws, policies, and practices influence human health locally, nationally, and internationally.
  • describe appropriate behaviors important in a dating relationship.