High School Health Mississippi Standards

Practice first aid emergency procedures, including reporting accidents and providing first aid for wounds, choking, fractures, heart attacks, seizures, and poisonings.

Assemble contents of a basic first aid kit.

Identify, assess, and learn to respond to emergency situations.

Discuss and demonstrate procedures for emergency situations.

Recognize dangerous situations, including rape, assault, misuse of social networking, and gang-related activities, and how to avoid them.

Explain ways to promote vehicle safety, including regular use of seat belts for all ages.

Recognize recreational-related injuries and how to prevent them.

Identify basic safety rules that help prevent accidents at work and school.

Describe ways to prepare for natural disasters in the community.

Describe behaviors that promote home safety.

Discuss promotion of safety and prevention of accidents.

Safety and First Aid

Identify the importance of conserving natural resources and the green movement.

Describe government agencies that protect the environment.

Name sources of air, water, noise, radiation, and ground pollution.

Determine how pollution, natural disasters, over-population, and community violence affect our environmental health.

Explain how environment affects people and how people affect the environment.

Explain the importance of family medical records.

List career opportunities in health.

Describe organizations and services that assist the community and individuals in health promotion.

Identify community health-care agencies, health careers, and the importance of family medical records.

Community and Environmental Health

Explain how alcohol and drugs can increase the vulnerability to unwanted sexual advances.

Describe how individuals can help reduce the misuse and abuse of drugs.

Demonstrate ways to intervene and help a drug-dependent friend.

Develop refusal skills for all forms of drugs and inhalants.

Discuss refusal and intervention skills.

Discuss various types of inhalants and identify dangers associated with the use of inhalants.

Illustrate the health hazards of inhalants.

Explain how medicines benefit the life of human beings.

Illustrate how drug use, misuse, and abuse cause problems in society.

Describe the side effects of drugs and how drugs are commonly abused.

Differentiate between legal and illegal drugs and explain the benefits of medicines and harmful effects of illegal drugs.

Analyze the health hazards of drugs and benefits of medicines.

Explain the impact of alcohol on alcoholics, their families, and society.

Identify the short- and long-term effects of alcohol on the body.

Summarize the health hazards of alcohol.

Describe long-term effects of tobacco use and the dangers of smoking.

List major reasons why people either abstain from or use tobacco.

Examine the health hazards of tobacco.

Substance Abuse Prevention

Develop skills needed to achieve lifetime fitness.

Develop a regular plan of exercise using the four parts of physical fitness and two types of exercise.

Explain the physical and psychological benefits of exercise.

Discover the importance of fitness.

Recognize diseases associated with poor nutrition.

Create a daily meal plan for students' own families and calculate the number of calories.

Identify kinds of information provided on a food label.

Trace the path of food through the digestive system.

Identify six classes of nutrients and describe their functions in the human body.

Explain the organization of MyPlate.

Summarize how responsible food choices lead to nutritional health.

Nutrition and Fitness

Explain the types, prevention, and treatments for diabetes, arthritis, and other chronic diseases including those requiring, long-term care.

Describe the warning signs of cancer and the ways to reduce personal risk, including breast and/or testicular cancer.

Name the different kinds of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors.

State causes, signs, and control of noninfectious diseases.

Describe the symptoms, mode of transmission, prevention, and treatment of HIV and AIDS.

Describe the symptoms, mode of transmission, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

Recognize the ways to prevent HIV infection and STDs.

Describe the function of the immune system.

Describe the transmission, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of communicable diseases.

Identify the pathogens that cause communicable disease and how they are transmitted.

Recognize the causes, transfer, and control of common communicable diseases.

Disease Prevention and Control

Identify ways to cope with death and dying.

Identify the tasks and characteristics of adulthood.

Examine the aging process from adulthood through death.

Name the physical, mental, and emotional changes that happen during adolescence and state how these changes affect identity and interpersonal relationships.

Trace developmental stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

Identify physical, mental, and emotional changes that occur from childhood through adolescence.

Describe the stages of the birth process.

Explain the process of human reproduction from conception to birth.

Discuss various methods of family planning.

List reasons that parents decide to have children.

Examine health practices to be considered before, during, and after pregnancy.

Identify various genetic and environmental birth defects.

Define the role heredity plays in determining physical traits and distinguish between dominant and recessive genes.

Summarize how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to another.

Human Growth and Development

Define the role of the family in the transmission of values, attitudes, behavior, personalities, and responsibilities of its members.

Explain factors that may cause a family system to break down (to include spousal and child abuse.).

Describe elements that healthy families have in common and ways to maintain family health.

Describe why the family is the basic social unit of society.

Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals.

Discuss conflict-resolution styles and components of communication that can aid in resolving conflicts.

Identify qualities that are important in close friends.

Identify strategies for choosing abstinence when faced with sexual pressures.

Describe how the skills of communication, cooperation, and advocacy are essential for healthy relationships.

Family/Social Health

Identify the relationship between psychological factors and eating disorders.

Identify warning signs of suicide and demonstrate intervention strategies.

Identify available resources for treatment of mental illness.

Identify different mental health disorders and recognize signs of each.

Define functional and organic mental disorders and state controls for each.

Develop a stress management plan.

Identify the harmful physiological and psychological effects of stress.

Describe how stress influences mental health.

Identify common defense mechanisms.

Identify nonthreatening ways of being assertive.

Explain how an individual's mental and physical health habits affect what he or she thinks about himself or herself.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors that contribute to positive mental health.

Mental Health

Analyze the influences of different cultural beliefs on health behaviors.

Evaluate the implications of modern technology on societal health.

Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.

Examine costs and options for paying for health care services.

Recognize medical fraud in the marketplace.

Identify popular types of deceptive advertising and product fraud.

Identify the activities of agencies that protect the consumer.

Identify rights and responsibilities as a consumer.

Recognize the benefits of being a wise consumer.

Define a value system and identify the relationship of values to actions.

Apply the decision-making model to solve a personal problem.

Identify the steps in the decision-making model.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal setting and decision making skills to enhance health.

State good personal hygiene habits, including dental, skin, hair, ear, eye, and nail care.

Define health and list characteristics of a healthy person.

Describe ways to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Personal and Consumer Health