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Managing My Life: Managing My Health |
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Managing My Life: Managing My Health is an innovative, user-friendly, cost-effective self-study program, which is designed to help you and your family understand and manage more effectively all aspects of your health.
This program is co-authored by Dr. Bruno Bernucci, MD; Sheryl Dawson, organizational consultant working on a PhD Clinical Psychology, Linda Lewis-Daly, workplace wellness consultant; and George Beshara, professional trainer, career transition coach and HR consultant.
The program is made up of the following five chapters:
1. Introduction – which leads you to :
- Better understand the positive and negative changes which are affecting our health in the 21st century.
- Realize the important role we can each play to manage our health more effectively.
2. Understanding How Our Body Works – which leads you to :
- Better understand the interactions of our body with our environment as well as the interactions between organ systems within our body.
- Explore the needs of the body for optimal functioning.
3. Major Illnesses, Their Causes and Their Symptoms – which provides you with :
- Concise information related to different body systems (e.g., circulatory system, endocrine system, mental health, etc.), illnesses as well as detectable symptoms and website addresses to conduct additional research, if so desired.
- Tools to track your family history of various illness and to prepare your personal medical history for discussion with health professionals.
4. What We Can Do - will empower you to :
- Better understand what you can do when it comes to annual check-ups, testing and vaccinations, medication management, nutrition and exercise, relaxation and sleep and much, much more.
- Set specific goals and objectives related to nutrition and exercising.
- Use the tools which were developed to help you implement your goals and embrace the good habits which are necessary in order to manage your health more effectively.
5. Healthcare Professionals and Their Roles – this chapter will lead you to :
- Better understand what different health care professionals can do to help you manage your health more effectively. Professionals overviewed offer primary and complimentary health services (e.g., naturopathic doctors, pharmacists, chiropractors, mental health professionals, etc.)
Managing My Life - Managing My Health
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