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Key takeaways for this Chapter

Your health is your state of well-being.
Wellness is the active process of achieving health through growth and change.
Wellness is a broad concept and encompasses nine dimensions: Physical, Emotional, Social, Environmental, Financial, Intellectual, Occupational, Spiritual, and Cultural.
A healthy population is a nations greatest resource, it means a productive population, a prosperous population, and a healthy economy.
The top causes of death, cardiovascular disease and cancer, are highly impacted by your lifestyle choices.
Increasing health literacy is an important skill to ensure people can find, understand, and use valid reliable information to make healthy decisions.
Everyone is at a different readiness to change and can take steps to actively change unhealthy behaviors.
Use SMART goal setting to change broad health goals into action oriented goals that you can achieve.

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