High School Health Hawaii Standards

Advocacy Across Topic Areas

Advocacy — Advocate for personal, family, and community health

Goal-Setting Across Topic Areas

Decision-Making Across Topic Areas

Decision-Making and Goal-Setting — Use decision-making and goal-setting skills to enhance health

Promoting Safety and Preventing Violence and Unintentional Injury

Communication Skils Across Topic Areas

Interpersonal Communication — Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health

Factors Influencing Health Across Topic Areas

Analyzing Influences — Understand the influences of culture, family, peers, media, technology, and other factors on health

Personal Health and Wellness

Mental and Emotional Health

Self-Management — Practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks

Health Information, Products, and Services Across Topic Areas

Accessing Information — Access valid health information and health-promoting products and services

Personal Health and Wellness

Promoting Safety and Preventing Violence and Unintentional Injury

Mental and Emotional Health

Core Concepts — Understand concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention

Compare the relationships among mental, emotional, social, and physical health in adulthood

Know how to use appropriate strategies to avoid, reduce, and report threatening situations

Identify personal health behaviors and other factors that impact body system functions

Explain the purpose of public health policies and government regulations in health

Compare health information provided from home, school, and community resources

Evaluate the validity of different sources of health information

Describe when and how to access health services for self and others

Compare a variety of personal coping and stress management strategies

Compare the importance of enhancing health and safety in the community, workplace, and/or at home

Evaluate personal behaviors within the risk areas (e.g., tobacco use, alcohol and drug use, nutrition, fitness, personal safety, sexual activity)

Evaluate the interrelationship of internal and external factors that influence health behaviors

Know how to use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills that are necessary to avoid potentially harmful situations

Know how to use appropriate strategies to resolve disagreements

Explain decision-making strategies used to make health-related decisions

Evaluate health decisions that have immediate and long-term consequences on the individual, family, and community

Know how to apply appropriate responses to risky situations

Create and implement a plan for enhancing life-long goals

Use effective strategies to help others promote and protect their health

Design a school-wide health advocacy campaign that advocates for a healthy lifestyle

Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies in communicating health information

Explain how health messages can be translated to particular audiences