| Healthy Living
Healthy living is about keeping you well, rather than treating you after you become sick. When you learn to take care of your body, you are participating in a key component of primary health care – the concept of healthy living.
Healthy living encourages people to self-manage and care for themselves and recognizes how factors outside the health system influence not only our personal, but our community, well-being.
Healthy living involves the management of chronic disease, prevention of illness and injury and encourages us to take a responsibility for our own care. |
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Healthy living contributes not only to the health of individuals, but also to the sustainability of the health care system by helping to reduce hospital and other treatment-related costs.
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