Health Action Plan: Personal Wellness Report for University

This report presents a comprehensive health action plan developed by a university student, focusing on various aspects of personal wellness. The student identifies strengths in emotional and intellectual wellness, detailing strategies like stress management through exercise and intellectual stimulation through reading and puzzles. The report also highlights areas for development, specifically spiritual and social well-being, and outlines actions to enhance these areas, such as increased communication with family and participation in religious activities. Furthermore, the student assesses risk areas, including cancer and obesity, and proposes lifestyle changes, such as a balanced diet, regular exercise, and avoidance of unhealthy behaviors, to mitigate these risks. A one-month health plan is detailed, including doctor visits, dietary changes, exercise routines, and lifestyle adjustments. The reflection section emphasizes the importance of health and wellness, the identification of key themes, and the student's commitment to implementing the plan for long-term health benefits. This report serves as a practical guide for personal health improvement and serves as a valuable resource for students on Desklib.

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PART 2: HEALTH ACTION PLAN
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

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Strong areas of Health and Wellness
The two strong areas of my health and wellness are emotional and intellectual. This
allows me to conduct self-care, development of my inner strength, relaxation and stress
management. I am actively participating in various cultural, literary and community activities
that helped in the development of my intellectual wellness over time. Thus, I can state that I
am confident that I had given ample attention to these areas of health and wellness.
a. The actions that I have taken to strengthen my emotional wellness was to manage
stress by working out that helped me in alleviating my daily stress level. I practice T’ai chi,
which is an internal Chinese martial art. I am enrolled in a program in the community centre
that is conducted once per week with a group of people. The actions that I used for supporting
my intellectual wellness are I read a lot and I have books of varied genre that allow me to
learn more and regularly solve the Sudoku and puzzle in the newspaper that help me in
sharpening my learning skills.
b. As I will get older, my life will change and I will get less time to conduct the actions
that support my emotional and intellectual health and wellbeing. However, I need to adopt a
strategy that will ensure that the areas of my life are still thriving at difficult times. The
strategy for emotional health will be to resting, maintaining a proper diet and exercising at
home. This will offer the ability to combat adversity or being resilience. Another strategy that
will ensure my intellectual health by having healthy debates with a family member, family or
other. This will help in gaining knowledge from another person’s perspective and thus,
enhanced knowledge occur on a continuous basis.
c. It is a well-known fact that mental satisfaction cannot be measured because there is no
tool that is invented to measure the satisfaction level. The quality of life is an indicator of the

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satisfaction level in these areas. In case, I feel inner peace and content; I can say that my
wellness in the aspects is high; otherwise, it has fallen and requires more attention.
Developing areas of Health and Wellness
a. The two areas of my health and wellness that I would like to enhance is spiritual and
social that I feel that have not been able to focus upon due to various factors and thus, I feel it
is time that I need to focus on enhancing these aspects. I was never good at being socially
active and at times, I do feel lonely that may have an impact on my mental health. Thus, I feel
that it is time that I strengthen my relationship with my friend and family; thus, establishing
nurturing, healthy and supportive relations around me. It is always found that the most
neglected health and wellness area is spiritual as people think it comes from within; however,
a healthy spiritual practice has various benefits in one’s life and needs to be nurtured from
time-to-time. Therefore, I have decided to focus on these two areas to be enhanced at an
immediate basis.
b. The action that I would take for gaining satisfaction in term of social wellbeing is to
regularly communicate with my parents as I live in a different country for my education. Due
to stress, I had ignored their calls and stopped replying to them has an impact on the social
wellbeing of my parents and me. Therefore, it is important to make efforts from my efforts to
talk to them on a daily basis that will help in reducing my stress level to a certain extent. The
action that I would take to improve my spiritual health is to volunteer in a church or other
religious activity that will help me in gaining comprehensive experiences related to
spirituality and thus, allow me in guide my path in life.
c. Reaching satisfaction in social areas is simple as when I will feel that I am
comfortable in sharing everything with my parent and communicating with them give me a
sense of confidence to face the obstacles or challenges, I can say that I have been successful

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in achieving the desired level. However, spiritual satisfaction is hard to achieve, as there is an
intricate and complex aspect of spirituality as people learn more and the want of learning
more increase with time. It is a never-ending process that needs to be cultivated over a long
period in order to gain satisfaction.
Risk areas of Health and Wellness
a. The chronic illness or current disease that I am at the highest risk based on family
health history is cancer and based on current behavior and action is obesity, as I love to have
junk food. Since I live without my parent in a different country, most of the time, I do not
have the time to cook and I order food or have canned food. The inactive active lifestyle may
also contribute to being obese as I am slightly overweight.
b. Upon reviewing my lifestyle and quality of life, it is inevitable that lifestyle change is
critical that would help in reducing the risk of encounter the health issue at present or in the
future. The overlapping actions that can be taken to prevent the risk of cancer and obesity are
 To eat a healthy diet that contains a balanced content of all dietary elements such as
carbohydrate, proteins, and vitamins, minerals, fat and other. It is important to limit
the fat-related food that has an increasing prevalence of increasing the risk of obesity
 To maintain a healthy weight and being physically active- as it can be found that I am
slightly overweight that it is more than important to reduce my weight
 Avoiding risk behaviours such as the use of tobacco, smoking or alcohol when though
consumed occasionally. It is unpredictable to say when cancer may occur; thus, it is
important to stay fit and healthy.
c. One month Health Plan
 To visit a doctor to assess the condition of the body by a thorough assessment

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 To meet a dietician to formulate a diet plan to reduce weight- This needs to be strictly
followed and monitoring of weight at a regular basis need to be done
 Exercising is an important aspect of this case and will help in reducing weight-
 Going to a gym for one hour, thrice a week can be done.
 In case, the doctor has given any medication, timely having those medicines is vital.
 Living an active life is important thus, effective utilisation of time such as learning a
new musical instrument or a new language can be done to effective use of the time
that was prior wasted in sitting ideally and playing video games.
 Using a cycle to go to university instead of bus can be another alternative
transportation that will be useful in this case.
 Doing T’ai chi and solving Sudoku and puzzle need to be continued over time
 Focusing on low-glycemic index food need to be done that will help in reducing the
risks. As stated that I am more comfortable having junk food, it is important to avoid
junk food for a month completely.
 It is important to start cooking that will help in maintaining the diet, as stated by the
healthcare professional. This is because the canned or processed food is not reliable
and often do not contain an adequate amount of required components as stated.
Reflection
i. This project is one of its kind and is an ongoing tool for me that have a deeper look
into my personal health and wellness. One of the biggest thing that I have learned over the
period during the entire course was the fact that health is one of the biggest assets in one’s
life and maintaining wellness through scientific and practical knowledge is important. Before
this, I ensured that I am young and thus, I am fit, however; I understood that age is not a
matter for a disease to occur, it is the immune system that is important and people should
thrive to improves its immune system at all stage to become healthy.

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ii. After conducting and reviewing my daily wellness checks, the common themes that
have been identified were a disease, health, wellbeing, different areas of wellness, healthy
choices and being healthy at body and mind. The negative outcome that may have a serious
impact on my life is my lifestyle and loneliness that has a huge impact on my current health
and wellness and thus, in order to continue positive outcome I need to individual address and
focus on each area of health and wellness and strategize to improve.
iii. The red flag in my lifestyle choice was inactive life that I was not aware have an
impact in increasing risk of disease.
iv. I would definitely like to use the one-month health plan to check my health and
wellness even after 10, 20 or 30 years down the road.
v. I am most proud of my zeal to improve and the ability to accept the truth. This
allowed me in understanding my weakness and thus, planning to improve them even though I
am aware of the challenges that I might face in due course of time.