Health
The focus of this module is health promotion. However before exploring this, your understanding of health in relation to yourself and others needs to be clarified. Your experience may have highlighted for you that everyone's perception of health varies.
Recognising how perceptions of health vary will help you to work with individuals and communities without conflict.
Individual perceptions of health
This should take about 10 minutes
Consider your own perceptions of health by completing the following statements on a piece of paper:
I feel healthy when ...
I feel healthy because ...
To stay healthy I need ...
I do not feel healthy when ...
My health improves when ...
(Adapted from: Naidoo and Wills 2009)