{"id":2,"date":"2018-02-05T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/healthy-communities\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:38:23","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/healthy-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Communities: Wellness Across the Life Span"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_1564330516-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>What is wellness?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wellness is more than health or being free from illness. It is an active process of change and growth. This involves making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is well-being?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Well-being is being comfortable, happy, and healthy. Public health is working to support populations by promoting social, economic, and personal development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wellness is multi-dimensional and includes aspects of physical, emotional, social, economic, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, and environmental health. VDH is working to support Virginians to achieve a strong state of well-being by addressing these multidimensions of wellness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the importance? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chronic diseases are some of the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems. Some chronic diseases include obesity, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. You can reduce your risk of having a chronic disease by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading a healthy lifestyle<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoiding tobacco use,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being physically active<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating nutritious foods<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What strategies is VDH focusing on?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other important factors to a healthy lifestyle include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adequate housing and public transportation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quality health care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">safe places to exercise and play<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quality education<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0These factors, or social determinants of health, highlight the conditions of the places where people live, learn, work, play, and worship. VDH is working to support community initiatives that address issues leading to poor health outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our work supports the <a href=\"http:\/\/virginiawellbeing.com\/\">Virginia\u2019s Plan for Wellbeing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/collaborative\/shared-agenda\/\">Virginia\u2019s Shared Agenda<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is wellness? Wellness is more than health or being free from illness. It is an active process of change and growth. This involves making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.\u00a0 What is well-being? \u00a0Well-being is being comfortable, happy, and healthy. 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