Grade 11

Health and Wellbeing

Academic Year 2021/2022 – Term 1

Unit-1

Lesson no. 1.2

Lesson name: Dimensions of health

Learning outcome

By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

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Identify the four dimensions of health (physical, social, mental and emotional)

Explain how the four dimensions of health affect each other.

Keywords

• Dimension – an area of part of
• Affect – make a difference to
• Physical – relating to the body
• Social – relates to society, the community and other people
• Emotional – relating to feelings
• Mental – relating to the mind
• Communication – exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or some other medium

Dimensions of health

Dimensions of health include the following:

• Physical health
• Social health
• Mental health
• Emotional health

Different factors can affect health.

Dimensions of health

• Any physical aspect of health
• Physical ill-health can include diseases and disorders
• Fractures or other physical injuries

Physical health

Dimensions of health

• The ability to build and keep relationships
• Good communication skills

Social health

Dimensions of health

• Refers to the cognitive aspect of health
• The ability to learn, think and remember
• It is about the functioning of the brain

Mental health

Dimensions of health

• Refers to feelings and emotions
• A person can identify and manage their emotions
• Can be confused with mental health

Emotional health

How do the dimensions affect each other?

• The state of health in one dimension of health will have an impact on the other dimensions
• Illness can affect one dimension, or all of them
• Illness of one dimension can have an impact on the other dimensions

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All of the dimensions are important; individually and all together

Health is a changing state

• They might be physically healthy, but not socially
• Health is constantly changing
• There are many challenges within the environment that can affect your state of health
• These are known as barriers to health
• Barriers to health are things that affect health that you as an individual cannot control

It is difficult to say if a person is ‘healthy’ or ’unhealthy’ at any one time

Barriers to Health

• Weather
• Local healthcare facilities
• Other people’s behaviour
• The food available

Some barriers to health are:

Learning outcome

By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

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Identify the four dimensions of health (physical, social, mental and emotional)

Explain how the four dimensions of health affect each other.

Conclusion

Questions

Recap