Community Wellness: Practice and Behavior

Can we continue to emphasize a health system that only pays providers for procedures after onset of disease and offers medications rather than behavior change?

At Reinventing Health we believe that we must take a public health approach to producing a healthier population. This will be accomplished cost effectively through improved health literacy, personal responsiblity and healthy role modeling.

Today, the concept of "wellness" is being introduced into the US public health lexicon as our society strives to meet health promotion goals of ensuring that all people will achieve their optimal lifespan with the best possible quality of health in every stage of life. This emphasis on wellness reflects the belief that the best possible quality of health is not the mere absence of disease.

The health model of wellness through the life stages is sometimes described as a holistic approach to public health, an approach that aims to help people maintain good mental and physical health throughout their lives rather than focusing on specific diseases or conditions.

For supporting data on this topic please see "Power of Prevention"

Please visit our Programs page to see our efforts to address these concerns.

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