Health Counseling: The experts know

Health counseling: A broad, encompassing term that describes various approaches and methods for assisting individuals to reduce or to prevent the progression of disease processes, as well as to improve and to promote health status and functioning.

These are for any one, not just those who have chronic illnesses or diseases. I highly advice anyone who wants to make improvements to their health and lifestyle to look into any of these and have an expert guide you into which one would be best to meet your needs.


Five types of health counseling are:

1. Medical care  - improve health status by implementing a health prescription
2. Patient care - improve patient understanding, skill, and compliance with health prescription
3. Health promotion - improve lifestyle, health behaviors and /or health status in light of psychological principles
4. Health focused - improve lifestyle, health behaviors and /or health status by increasing adherence to a health prescription when barriers are present or anticipated
5. Health focused psychotherapy - improve health status or acceptance of life-threatening or progressively debilitating illness

Here are some health care basic definitions:

• Health - Attaining and maintaining a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
• Health education - Learning experiences that assist individuals in making informed decisions in order to increase their health status.
• Health promotion - The science and art of helping individuals change their lifestyles to reflect a state of optimal health, which involves balancing the physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual aspects of life.
• Wellness - Away of life orientated toward the optimal level of health and well-being that an individual is capable of achieving. It is related to, but independent of, health.

So, we have a choice, either sit around and have someone care for us in our senior years, or get off our butts and start living a healthy active life in which your independent and able share good times with family and friends.


LIVE RIGHT, ITS NOT THAT HARD AND ITS WORTH THE EFFORT.      
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