: Being Healthy
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Approach: One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8 
Focus: Understanding health
Resources:Recording book

Questions/instructions:
People often talk about being healthy and having good health or hauora pai.

1. What do you think makes a person healthy? Think of as many things as you can and I will write them down for you.
Record answers then read back to student when recorded.




% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8
2. Is there anything you would like to add to or change on your list?
Make any changes as requested.
Food and diet:
3 or more ideas
50 (66)
47 (27)
2 ideas
32 (25)
31 (31)
1 idea
17 (9)
21 (41)
Physical activity:
2 or more ideas
39 (25)
37 (21)
1 idea
38 (42)
58 (61)
Personal hygiene:
1 or more ideas
7 (26)
18 (47)
Accident/illness prevention:
1 or more ideas
8 (16)
12 (18)
Socialisation and relationships:
1 or more ideas
2 (6)
10 (16)
Intellectual/emotional/ spiritual needs:
1 or more ideas
2 (7)
12 (27)
Balanced lifestyle: (balance of sleep/work/leisure, etc.)
1 or more ideas
9 (20)
24 (29)
Drugs/alcohol/tobacco abuse:
1 or more ideas
3 (7)
12 (26)
Captured the needs of a healthy person:
very well
1 (3)
4 (13)
well
12 (21)
33 (38)
moderately well
70 (57)
56 (46)
poorly
17 (19)
7 (3)
3. Which of these things is probably the most important?

food and diet
77 (68)
66 (46)
physical activity
17 (9)
24 (15)
personal hygiene
1 (2)
3 (13)
accident/illness prevention
1 (6)
0 (3)
socialisation and relationships
0 (1)
1 (1)
intellectual/emotional/ spiritual needs
0 (1)
2 (8)
balanced lifestyle
1 (8)
1 (7)
drugs, alcohol, tobacco abuse
1 (2)
1 (7)
any other response
2 (3)
1 (0)
4. Why do you think that is probably the most important?
Strength of justification:
strong
7 (4)
15 (12)
moderate
67 (62)
71 (76)
weak
26 (34)
14 (12)
Total score:
4–5
4 (5)
12 (17)
3
13 (16)
27 (29)
2
51 (45)
47 (46)
1
22 (19)
9 (6)
0
10 (15)
5 (2)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4

Year 8

Commentary:
Most students associated health with nutrition choices and physical activity, with much less attention to social, emotional or spiritual issues. There were only slight differences between boys, girls, Pakeha, Mäori and Pasifika students. There was little change from 2002 to 2006.
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