Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.

Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.

In reflecting on my health, specifically wellness and illness, I am continually pursuing good health. As a fully aware and educated health care provider, I continually seek to improve my health and wellness with a focus on avoiding the different health conditions and disease. Currently, I assess myself as being in good health based on the health-illness continuum. I have used my professional knowledge of health and disease to develop factors and behaviors that help me shift towards high level wellness in the continuum. The healthy factors and behaviors that I have developed include having a positive attitude toward health, adopting healthy eating habits, eating low carbohydrate meals that reduce opportunities for developing heart disease and diabetes, and engaging in regular moderate exercise. In addition, I am open to exploring evidence-based options and resources for improving health. These include public information forums and education materials on common ailments since they offer information on how to improve health, address health concerns, and avoid ill health. I am continuously striving to improve my health and believe that my efforts are not in vain.