Principles of Health & Wellness DQ's


Principles of Health and Wellness
Discussion Questions

Week 1 DQ 1:  What are some of the most important elements of health and wellness?  Explain your response.  (150-300 words)

Week 1 DQ 2:  Does being physically healthy equate to having overall health and wellness?  (150-300 words)

Week 1 DQ 3:  Do you think that all six dimensions of health are equally important?  Why or why not?  (150-300 words)

Week 1 DQ 4:  Why is achieving overall health and wellness important?  (150-300 words)

Week 1 DQ 5:  What are some of the challenges to achieving overall health and wellness?  How can you overcome these challenges?  (150-300 words)

Week 2 DQ 1:  How may a positive mind-set help individuals overcome life’s challenges?  Do you think there are any disadvantages to having a strictly positive mind set?  (150-300 words)

Week 2 DQ 2:  How might having a healthy balance of mind and body help you accomplish your life goals?  (150-300 words)

Week 2 DQ 3:  How does the text define stress?  What are some common stressors?  What are some strategies for coping with stress?  (150-300 words)

Week 2 DQ 4:  What are some ways that stress affects wellness?  Provide examples.  (150-300 words)

Week 2 DQ 5:  Do you believe that a healthy mind promotes a healthy body?  Why or why not?  (150-300 words)

Week 3 DQ 1:  What are some of the benefits of regular physical activity?  Why is physical activity important and how might it improve health and wellness?  (150-300 words) 

Week 3 DQ 2:  What is one factor that has contributed to the global increase in obesity?  Describe this factor in detail and explain why the factor puts individuals at risk for becoming obese.  (150-300 words)

Week 3 DQ 3:  What are some obstacles that prevent individuals from getting regular physical activity?  How can you overcome these obstacles?  (150-300 words)

Week 3 DQ 4:  If you wanted to lose weight, what type of fitness plan would you incorporate into your daily routine to achieve your goal?  (150-300 words)

Week 3 DQ 5:  Which components of health related fitness do you think are your strengths, and which do you think could use some improvement?  (150-300 words)

Week 4 DQ 1:  Do you think understanding how to read a food label might benefit you?  How might you use this information to improve your eating habits?  (150-300 words)

Week 4 DQ 2:  Which essential nutrients do you find it difficult to incorporate into your daily diet?  What are some ways that you could start incorporating them?  (150-300 words)

Week 4 DQ 3:  What are some psychosocial factors that contribute to eating behaviors?  What are some ways to overcome these factors?  (150-300 words)

Week 4 DQ 4:  What are some environmental and economic factors that contribute to eating behaviors?  What are some ways to overcome these factors?  (150-300 words)

Week 4 DQ 5:  What are some examples of foods you eat regularly to ensure you are getting the daily recommended amount of each essential nutrient?  (150-300 words)

Week 5 DQ 1:  What are some risk factors that may be controlled to prevent serious illness?  How can you control them?  (150-300 words)

Week 5 DQ 2:  Do any of the controllable risk factors discussed this week apply to you?  What can you do to eliminate these risk factors in your life?  (150-300 words)

Week 5 DQ 3:  What are some nonmodifiable risk factors that contribute to common chronic diseases?  Do any of these nonmodifiable risk factors run in your family?  (150-300 words)

Week 5 DQ 4:  Why do you think chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease are becoming the top killers of Americans?  (150-300 words)

Week 5 DQ 5:  What are some ways to manage living with the effects of a chronic disease?  (150-300 words)

Week 6 DQ 1:  With widely publicized information on the health and environmental consequences of smoking, why do you think people still choose to smoke?  (150-300 words)

Week 6 DQ 2:  What is the difference between a problem drinker and an alcoholic?  What factors can cause someone to become an alcoholic?  (150-300 words)

Week 6 DQ 3:  What effect does alcoholism have on an alcoholic’s family?  What are some resources for families dealing with alcoholism?  (150-300 words)

Week 6 DQ 4:  Conduct an internet search and find a minimum of two reliable resources for individuals suffering from cancer.  Based on your research, how can you be more helpful to friends or family who may be battling cancer?  (150-300 words)
Week 6 DQ 5:  Conduct an internet search and find a minimum of two reliable resources for individuals suffering from diabetes.  What do these resources offer?  How did you determine that the resource was reliable?  (150-300 words)

Week 7 DQ 1: What do you do to try to maintain a healthy immune system?  Why is it important to have a healthy immune system? (150-300 words)

Week 7 DQ 2:  How do you feel about vaccines?  Do you think the benefits outweigh the risks?  Would you recommend that parents follow vaccine recommendations for their children? (150-300 words)

Week 7 DQ 3:  How can you educate others effectively about the routes of transmission for major types of pathogens? (150-300 words)

Week 7 DQ 4:  Do you believe that overuse of antibiotics has contributed to superbugs and antibiotic resistance?   What are some things that can be done to prevent this from becoming a greater problem? (150-300 words)

Week 7 DQ 5:  What role do socioeconomic conditions play in the increased risks for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, influenza, and hepatitis? (150-300 words)
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Week 8 DQ 1:  What role does the environment play in preventing major chronic illness such as respiratory diseases and cancers?  (150-300 words)

Week 8 DQ 2:  What types of environmental factors that affect health are present where you live?  How so you deal with these potentially harmful environmental factors?  (150-300 words)

Week 8 DQ 3:  What steps do you take to help protect yourself from environmental health risk factors?  (150-300 words)

Week 8 DQ 4:  What are some changes you can make in an effort to live a greener, more sustainable, life style?  (150-300 words)

Week 8 DQ 5:  How do you balance living a healthy and sustainable lifestyle with economic realities?  (150-300 words)

Week 9 DQ 1:  Have you ever tried any type of alternative or complimentary medicine?  If so, please share your experience.  If not, would you consider doing so in the future?  Explain why or why not.  (150-300 words)

Week 9 DQ 2:  What are some of the criteria you use to assess health professionals?  Do you think your criteria are effective?  (150-300 words)

Week 9 DQ 3:  What is your opinion of health care delivery in the United States?  Is it adequate?  How can health care delivery be improved in the United States?  Consider private and public health delivery options.  (150-300 words)

Week 9 DQ 4:  What do you think it means to take responsibility for your health care?  Provide examples.  (150-300 words)

Week 9 DQ 5:  How are complimentary or alternative health care options different that traditional health care?  Are there any similarities?  What are the risks of alternative and traditional health care? (150-300 words)



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