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Any healthy living or community wellbeing initiative should be approached from a holistic perspective that encompasses both physical and social needs and development. In order to improve the health and wellbeing of any community, it is important to clearly identify what needs to be changed. It is important to realise issues that are symptoms of a wider problem. This means not only attempting to resolve health-related problems, but also uncovering what is causing them and preventing them from happening in the future. For example, a high rate of people suffering from diabetes-related problems would benefit from better access to health care facilities. However, it may be even more beneficial to try to encourage increased physical activity and healthy eating to reduce the onset of diabetes, particularly in children.
Creating a culture of health and self-care in a town will benefit everyone in the long term.
Recommended Reading:
Tonts, M. (2005), “Competitive Sport and Social Capital in rural Australia” in Journal of Rural Studies 21 pp 137-149.
www.communitytoolkit.org.uk
Sustainable Development Research Centre, (2007), ‘Wellbeing and Measuring Gross National Happiness’, www.forward-scotland.org.uk/publications
European Happy Planet Index – www.neweconomics.org
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