Promoting Healthy Behavior

Promoting Healthy Behaviour Change

Personal Health?Personal Health?

A Choice?A Choice?

Your Responsibility?Your Responsibility?

Health & Lifestyle - A Life Long Health & Lifestyle - A Life Long Process……. Process…….

What is Health?• Prior to the late

1800’s the opposite of sickness

• If disease didn’t kill you then you were healthy/lucky

• 1900’s • Victims of

microorganisms• Water, air, human

waste………….

Health and the Math (statistics)• Medical Research - Medical Research -

causes of diseasescauses of diseases• 1900’s - most deaths 1900’s - most deaths

infectious diseases infectious diseases (tuberculosis, (tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza)pneumonia, influenza)

• Life Expectancy Life Expectancy

Men 58.84 yearsMen 58.84 years

Females 60.60 yearsFemales 60.60 years

With improved sanitation, antibiotics and vaccines…...

• Life Expectancy Life Expectancy IncreasedIncreased

• Mortality Statistics - Mortality Statistics - People living longer People living longer (70’s to 80’s)(70’s to 80’s)

• Morbidity Statistics - Morbidity Statistics - people are less illpeople are less ill

Living Longer….. Different Health Concerns (!) ?

• World Health Organization World Health Organization (WHO)(WHO)

• ““the attainment by all peoples of the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of the highest possible level of health”health”

• How - by better professional How - by better professional training, promoting training, promoting cooperation, education, cooperation, education, research…………..research…………..

• ……. A wider view of HEALTH. A wider view of HEALTH

Absence from Disease to Holistic Health!

• People Are People Are multidimensionalmultidimensional

• Health must reflect Health must reflect the whole personthe whole person

• Heath is a dynamic, Heath is a dynamic, ever-changing ever-changing lifelong processlifelong process

Health and Wellness to its Highest Degree is Achieved Through………...

The Dimensions of HealthMind + Body+ Spirit

Social HealthSocial Health

• interpersonal interpersonal relationshipsrelationships

• daily behavioursdaily behaviours• interactionsinteractions• satisfyingsatisfying• positivepositive• supportivesupportive• variety of situationsvariety of situations

HOLISTICHOLISTICHEALTHHEALTH