Wellness
What is Wellness?
There is more to being healthy than simply being physically well. Wellness refers to complete health, rather than just your physical health. Wellness is not only being free of disease, illness, or stress but also having a purpose in life, being emotionally healthy, taking an active involvement in your work and in your leisure time, having joyful relationships and being happy. To enjoy fulfilled and happy lives, it is important to take care of your well-being and to invest time in your wellness.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) developed the Eight Dimensions of Wellness to capture the many facets of wellness, and to encourage individuals to take an approach their wellness that is wholistic in nature, encompassing more than just physical wellness. By aiming to balance each area of wellness, it can boost your overall happiness and life satisfaction.
Social Determinants of Health
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. These environmental factors experienced in childhood can continue to have impacts on an individual into adulthood and later life.
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. These environmental factors experienced in childhood can continue to have impacts on an individual into adulthood and later life.
SDOH Infographic_Employment.pdfSDOH Infographic_Early Childhood.pdfSDOH Infographic_Civic Participation.pdfSDOH Infographic_Access to Health.pdfSDOH Infographic_Access to Food.pdf