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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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