Health and Well-Being for Ages 11 to 15 Course

What you will learn in 3 lessons

1. 1

   Making Health Decisions

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   The learner uses a decision-making model in health situations: names the decision and what influences it, generates options, weighs short- and long-term consequences for wellbeing, chooses and justifies an option, communicates it assertively and reviews the outcome.

   4 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Explain what shapes your health decisions
   2. 2.Make considered decisions with a decision-making model
   3. 3.Communicate decisions assertively and get support
   4. 4.Set health goals, review decisions and put the skills together
2. 2

   Vaccination and Disease Prevention

   The learner applies hygiene, sun safety, vaccination and screening to prevent illness, and knows how to use the local healthcare system.

   6 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Explain how diseases differ and how prevention works
   2. 2.Explain how infections spread and how to break the chain
   3. 3.Use hygiene to protect yourself and others
   4. 4.Explain how vaccination protects people and use a vaccination schedule
   5. 5.Protect your teeth and skin every day
   6. 6.Find health problems early and get the right care
3. 3

   Health Information and Medicines

   The learner judges health information, advertising and products, uses prescription and over-the-counter medicines safely, knows their rights as a patient, and explains how the local health-care system is organised and paid for.

   6 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Judge health information
   2. 2.See through health marketing and false claims
   3. 3.Use medicines safely
   4. 4.Choose and use health services
   5. 5.Know your rights as a patient
   6. 6.Explain how health care is organized and paid for