High School Health Missouri Standards

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Compare ways that individuals, communities, state and federal government can cooperate to promote environmental health (e.g., recycling, adopt-a-highway programs, river clean-up, land preservation, community beautification, advocacy).

Individual Responsibility

Compare present environmental health problems to past environment health problems and develop strategies to reduce or correct these problems for the future (e.g., destruction of the ozone layer, asbestos, second-hand smoke, nuclear disasters, carpooling).

Define global warming and its effects on the health of individuals worldwide.

Effects of Pollution on Health

Environmental Health

Evaluate personal risks for chemical dependency based upon personal, family, and environmental factors.

Assess the risk of chemical dependency and locate available help if alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use becomes a problem.

Review healthy alternatives to substance use and investigate effective strategies to promote individual, family, and community health.

Evaluate the short and long term effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances on the body (e.g., changes in mood, thought processes, mental ability, coordination, reaction time) and draw conclusions on the impact of these substances on personal, social, and economic threats to society.

Substance Use vs. Non-Use

Explain why individuals need to follow label guidelines for all substances (e.g., compatibility of ingested substances).

Purpose and Guidelines for Prescription, OTC Drugs and Natural Substances

Assess the short and long-term effects that performance enhancing aids have on the body processes (e.g., liver damage, heart failure, brain aneurysm, anger, "road rage," acne, violence, memory loss, hepatitis, HIV) and on individuals and society (e.g., body image, obsession with winning, violent behavior, black market/illegal purchases).

Safe and Unsafe Substances

Substance Education

List the common water-related emergencies and describe prevention and treatment techniques.

Water-Related Emergencies

Recognize weather-related emergencies (e.g., dehydration, asthma, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hypothermia, frostbite) and perform appropriate first aid procedures and practices.

Recognize activity-related conditions (e.g., bleeding, shock, asthma, low blood sugar, diabetes, dehydration) and perform appropriate first aid procedures and practices for each.

Activity Related Injuries and Environmental Conditions

Identify, from a given list, those situations that are life threatening and perform basic life saving maneuvers (e.g., CPR, abdominal thrust, bleeding control, shock, burns, asthma, bee stings, snake bites, poisoning).

First Aid Procedures

Describe and analyze methods that can be effective in preventing societal problems affecting teens (e.g., rape, assault, homicide, and other personal safety risks, gangs).

Safety for Home, School, and Communities

Injury Prevention and Safety

Evaluate the progression of reliability of various contraceptive methods from most reliable to least reliable (e.g., abstinence, barrier methods, oral methods, surgical methods, injectable methods, implants).

Investigate and analyze the cause and effect relationship between obtaining prenatal care and the health of the mother and baby. (e.g., nutrition, alcohol and tobacco consumption, physical activity, age, other drug use) and it's effects on the unborn child (e.g., leg deformities, retardation, learning disabilities, addiction, low birth weight).

Analyze and evaluate how teen pregnancy and parenting can impact personal, family and societal perspectives (e.g., dropout, low self-esteem, abandonment, and economics).

Abstinence, Prevention Behaviors, and Teen Pregnancy

Explain how sexually transmitted infections can affect an individual's physical, social, mental/emotional, intellectual, professional, and economic well-being (e.g., HIV/AIDS sterility, Kaposi Sarcoma, pneumonia, PCP, stress, oral thrush, yeast infections).

Compare signs and symptoms of common sexually transmitted infections.

Adolescent Health Issues and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Use the scientific process of laboratory investigation to test hypotheses on pathogen transmission (e.g., hand sanitizers, Germglow, disinfectants).

Formulate and support an interpretation regarding the reoccurrence of resistant strains of pathogens (e.g., strep, herpes, mononucleosis, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HIV, Staff Infection).

Types of Pathogens and Transmission

Describe the primary and secondary defenses for prevention of disease and discuss how they help to maintain or improve them.

Body Defenses and Recovery

Analyze past problems related to chronic diseases to develop strategies to predict, prevent, solve or manage present or future disease-related problems (e.g., ethnic, cultural and family histories.

Conduct research to answer questions regarding epidemiological studies and cite evidence about the management and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases (e.g., local health department statistics, youth risk behavior survey (YRBS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institute of Health (NIH).

Describe the effects of positive lifestyles behaviors on the occurrence of disease (e.g., sunscreen, physical activity, diet, sleep, stress management).

Communicable vs. Non-Communicable Diseases

Disease Prevention and Control

Risk Assessment and Reduction

Develop a list of intervention skills that can be used to prevent violence and describe when and how to use these skills.

Harassment/Bullying and Violence Prevention

Create a plan using life management skills to address personal and social concerns that are a part of daily living (e.g., learning to manage time and stress, setting goals, dealing with conflicts, working collaboratively).

Stress Management and Coping Skills

Apply practices that preserve and enhance the safety and health of others (e.g., conflict resolution, peer mediation, seeking adult or professional consultation, stress management, goal setting, decision-making, assertive behavior, resisting peer pressure, asset development).

Decision Making and Problem Solving

Life Management Skills

Develop a list of individual and/or governmental agencies and explain their responsibility for providing assistance to people for their health needs (e.g., Al-anon for drug abuse or dermatologist for acne).

Community Services/Careers

Analyze the reliability of health care information, services and products that could affect consumer decision-making (e.g., finding specialists such as CDC, county health departments, extension centers; insurance carriers, clinics, hospitals, OB/GYN, and emergency rooms).

Consumer Rights and Issues

Analyze the health claims that the media make and their impact on physical, mental/emotional, and social health.

Evaluate the role the media can play in influencing young adults' self concept by idealizing body image and elite performance levels of famous people.

Media Influence on Health Habits and Decisions

Consumer Health and Safety

Design a nutritional plan and fitness program based on the relationship between food intake and activity level with regard to weight management and healthy living (e.g., caloric intake, calorie expenditure, weight gain, weight maintenance, and safe weight loss).

Food Energy and Physical Activity

Discuss the cause and effect relationships that influence a safe food supply (e.g., regulatory agencies, food handling and production, food storage techniques, pesticides, additives, bioterrorism).

Food Handling and Safety

Apply concepts using food labels to meet the dietary needs of individuals for a healthy lifestyle (e.g., diabetes, lactose intolerance, food allergies).

Food Labels

Analyze food choices and discuss how it should be used to develop a proper diet.

Investigate and analyze the factors that influence dietary choices (e.g., lifestyle, ethnicity, family, media, and advertising).

Prove how a well-balanced diet that is low in fat, high in fiber, vitamins and minerals can reduce the risk of certain disease.

Balance, Variety and Moderation

Assess how nutritional needs change throughout the life cycle.

Assess key nutrients and their specific functions and influences on body processes (e.g., disease prevention).

Essential Nutrients and Food Groupings

Nutrition

Analyze present fitness levels to create a personal fitness plan which meets current and future needs necessary for the maintenance of total fitness.

Analyze factors (e.g., time, cost, accessibility) and benefits (physical and psychological) related to regular participation in physical activity.

Health and Skill Related Fitness

Discuss the concept of preventive care and its importance in maintaining and improving health.

Preventive Care

Show the steps used in the problem solving model to examine system functions and disease formation encountered in daily living situations (e.g., lead poisoning, second-hand smoke).

Personal Health

Personal and Family Health

Health Maintenance and Enhancement

Predict how the dynamics of relationships with family, groups, and community change as the individual matures.

Compare and contrast constructive versus destructive defense mechanisms as a means for handling one's emotions.

Communication Skills

Develop a list of attributes needed to live effectively with others.

Responsibilities in Society

Describe patterns of physical, social, and mental/emotional health that promote healthy long-term relationships (e.g., dating, work environment, friendship, and marriage).

Cite evidence that supports the rights both individuals and the communities have when making social health decisions.

Influence of Family and Peers

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Investigate disorders, their treatments, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy lymphatic/immune system (e.g., common cold, influenza, tonsillitis, strep throat).

Lymphatic-Immune System

Discuss the importance of routine physical examinations and tests (e.g., pap smears, mammograms, prostate examination) to reduce the risks of problems related to cancer and other chronic diseases.

Explain how the following affect the functioning of the reproductive system: ovarian cysts, HPV/cervical cancer, premenstrual syndrome, infertility, ovarian cancer, testicular cancer, and prostate cancer.

Recognize normal vs. abnormal conditions of the reproductive system.

Reproductive System

List the causes of type II diabetes and describe management procedures and prevention techniques.

Investigate disorders, their treatments, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy endocrine system (e.g., thyroid cancer, type II diabetes, chemical imbalances).

Endocrine System

Investigate disorders, their treatment, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy urinary/excretory system (e.g., kidney stones, urinary tract infections, nephritis).

Urinary/Excretory System

List the most common disorders, describe how to treat them and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy digestive system (e.g., ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's Disease, diarrhea, constipation, gall stones, colon cancer).

Digestive System

Investigate disorders, their treatment, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy nervous system (e.g., mental disorders, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, meningitis, chemical imbalances, hives, shingles, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, epilepsy).

Nervous System

Investigate disorders, their treatments, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy cardio-respiratory system (e.g., high blood pressure, anemia, hemophilia, sickle cell, asthma, allergies, bronchitis, pneumonia).

Cardio-respiratory/Circulatory System

Investigate disorders, their treatment, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy skeletal system (e.g., osteoporosis, arthritis, sprain, scoliosis).

Skeletal System

Investigate disorders, their treatment, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy muscular system (e.g., muscular dystrophy, muscle cramps, tendonitis, muscle strains).

Muscular System

Investigate disorders, their treatments, and prevention techniques to maintain a healthy sensory system (e.g., hearing loss, glaucoma, near and far-sightedness, halitosis, numbness, tingling).

Sensory System

Structure and Functions of the Body

Functions and Interrelationships of Systems