Your Christian General Education Health Course 2011 CSKLS Convention

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in HEALTH even (especially) as thy soul prospereth.” 3 John 2

Dr. Karl W. SalscheiderProfessor of HealthBemidji State UniversityBemidji MN 56601ksalscheider@bemidjistate.eduhttp://karlsalscheider.efoliomn.com/

Health & Optimal Health Defined

Health is a dynamic, ever changing condition of well-being that includes the interaction of the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual and occupational aspects of life (Salscheider, 2002).

Optimal Health is both a process and outcome of living life well as it relates and interacts with the components of life that matter most (Salscheider, 2012).

Components of Life that Matter Most

Physical Health: The Body, Fitness, Nutrition & RestSpiritual Health: Living Congruently & Eternally with GodIntellectual Health: Advancing Knowledge & DiscernmentEmotional Health: Fostering Resiliency, Contentment & StabilitySocial Health: Relationships, Affirmation, Support & InfluenceOccupational Health: Purpose & Job FulfillmentRecreational Health: Merging Refreshment with Activity, Play &

RestSexual Health: Healthy & Appropriate Expression, Shifting

Paradigms from Abstinence to PostponementEconomic Health: Acquiring/Appropriating Assets/Finances &

Sustainability

Statistical Interaction and Health

These components both relate and interact often generating statistical interaction, which in the proper combination, mushrooms either desired or detrimental health outcomes. For example, small amounts of caffeine by itself only marginally aid in relieving headaches; as well, small amounts of common over-the-counter pain relievers such as Anacin only marginally aids in relieving headaches. However, combine the two items in small amounts and a 40% increase in over-all effectiveness results (WebMD, 2010). This is favorable interaction since the addition of small amounts of caffeine means that considerably less amounts of the main ingredient are necessary to achieve the desired outcome, pain relief. In contrast, alcohol poisoning has a level of premature deaths on it’s own. Automobile accidents have it’s own level of premature deaths. Yet, mix alcohol consumption with driving an automobile and the death rates mushroom fourfold (NIAAA’s Epidemilogical Bulletin #40, 2003).

Interaction, What Matters Most, Variability & Reality

So these health components are not only relational, but also interactive with the potential to accelerate either desired or undesirable health outcomes.

What matters most for people planet-wide is extremely variable. For some, obtaining a single mudcake to eat is an all-encompassing daily life or death event. To others, deciding which dinner show to attend and what attire to wear are their most compelling daily challenges.

Good Health enables us to function effectively in life. Perfect human health is unobtainable, yet so many of us unrealistically expect it. While coping with human imperfections, achieving maximal health is a complex struggle between proactive prevention and inevitable dysfunction. Realistically tolerating some of our human imperfections will both enhance mental health and avoid a life of consistent disappointment. But we strive; some in anguish while others in joy.

Public Health, Community Health, & Health Education

Defined Public Health is the combined efforts of government via

taxpayer dollars to promote and sustain the health and well-being of the citizenry. Public Health is a subset of Community Health (Salscheider, 2012).

Community Health is the combined efforts of government via taxpayer dollars along with private enterprise and philanthropy to promote and sustain the health and well-being of the citizenry (Salscheider, 2012).

Health Education is the strategically planned presentation of meaningful information that, through learning and application, statistically improves the efficacy of the targeted components of life that matter most. The end result of successful health education is enhanced health and quality of life (Salscheider, 2012).

Prioritizing the 6Components of Health

Without discussion, consider these terms in your own mind, then rank order them one through six as they are in your life. Complete within five minutes.

N = 551 from 25 different sections (1998-2003) of the course HLTH 4100 Elementary School Health (mandated for all prospective elementary school teachers) taught by Dr. Karl Salscheider at Bemidji State University

Class open to juniors and seniors Class size average of 22 (17.6 female, 4.4 male) Class age average of 24.9

Priority Assignment with 9 Components

Summer 2011

DLITE Program (on line elementary education program)

HLTH 4100 Elementary Health Methods

N=34

7 males (20%) 27 females (80%)

Age M=32.6

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Spiritual Health Rankings

Epistemology & Quality Thinking:

How Do You Know What You Know? According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of

Philosophy (2005), Epistemology is the study of knowledge as justified belief. Knowledge is factual and justifiable. So what do you think you know, and what evidence do you have to support your claims?

According to the Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary (2010), knowledge is a “fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association.” A fact is something considered true, a piece of information presented as having objective reality.

Observations How do we make observations and in what venues do we glean

information? Basically, the answer is provided by the five human senses of taste, smell, touch, hearing and sight. Most of us, middle-age adults and younger, have all five senses that all function well. Yet, through mutations during or after conception or accidents, some of us are deficient, disabled or even missing a sense or two. Perhaps you are visually challenged to the place where contacts or glasses are standard equipment for you to fully function. As we get older, all our senses seem to deteriorate: eyesight around the age of forty, for example. Just ask your folks or grandparents who are currently struggling with everyday events as they surrender the amenities of their youth. Perhaps Lasik eye surgery and hearing aids have been successful venues for them to better see and hear the world around them. Our senses, however, sometimes provide us inaccurate information, thus leading to erroneous conclusions and leading to unfavorable decisions with deleterious consequences.

Attribution This is what we really want to know! What truly is the “cause and affect”? This demands to go beyond categorical

data. This requires digging deeper into

continuous data. Consider the “Strength of Decision

Continuum”.

The Great “Khan”

Khan’s Behavior Validation Model

Assumption #1: You are in your right mind, not sleepy nor drug affected.

Assumption #2: You are within your own human limitations.

Postulate: It is impossible for you do what you don’t prefer to do. We always do what we prefer to do.

Objections? Exceptions? Why does this matter?