Our Picture of Health 1998:
Focusing on Community Health to the Year 2000CHAPTER 7: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
A healthy community balances personal, family and community responsibilities for physical and mental health.
Value
- A healthy community balances personal, family and community responsibilities for physical and mental health.
Goals
- A. Mesa County will provide affordable, available and accessible health care for all of its citizens.
- B. Mesa County will demonstrate healthy lifestyles, a population invested in its health, increased nutrition and exercise, decreased smoking.
- C. Mesa County will provide prevention activities that increase the span of a healthy life.
- D. Mesa County will provide support for valley-wide programs that that address substance abuse through prevention and intervention activities.
- E. Mesa County will provide opportunities for leisure activities and high-quality recreational activities.
- F. Mesa County will regard emotional well-being as an integral part of physical health and nurture the whole person, both physically and emotionally.
Introduction
Indicators of physical health are readily available, and the people of Mesa County who selected these measures chose to recognize the interaction between physical and mental well-being.
Based on value statements, individual choices about exercise, weight in relation to body size and age, and substance abuse are also included.
While choices in these areas do not guarantee health, they affect a person's ability to respond to disease or potential safety risks.
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