Women and Wellness

A Health Promotion Plan

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This web page has been designed to help women to increase control over and improve their health.  The three purposed of this site are to provide health enhancement, risk avoidance and risk reduction strategies. 

Most women do not realize how many variables that can have an affect on their physical, mental and social well-being.  Three of these major influencing factors are: environment, lifestyle and individual personal characteristics.  This site will address all of these issues and how they affect the general health of women. 

Health Enhancement  - provides people with strategies that works improve the overall vitality and health of people

Risk Avoidance  -  provides people with prevention strategies that they can use to reduce the chance that they will experience health problems

Risk Reduction  -  provides people with strategies that help them to change a behavior that is unhealthy

Environment Influences  -  Include all environments that a women engages in: her home environment, work environment, social environment etc…

Lifestyle Influences  -  Include all of the activities that women engage in regularly: her relationship, her substance use, her amount of income etc…

Personal Characteristics  -  Include all of the characteristics that make each woman unique: personality traits, physical traits, strengths/weaknesses etc...

· it should be noted here that all information provided is referenced from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1996.

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