Well being and Wellbeing for Individual, Place, and Planet
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As a Well being Selling College, UMass Amherst is dedicated to creating, cultivating, and sustaining wholesome individuals, locations, and planet. Our holistic imaginative and prescient of well being integrates bodily, psychological, religious, and social wellbeing.
Our method facilities on rules of human rights, social and environmental justice, solidarity, fairness, and peace.
Our view of the longer term features a development technique grounded in sustainable, low-carbon growth and knowledgeable by respect for humanity and nature. We contemplate new indicators of success past metrics typical of a standard college.
What’s Well being Promotion?
In keeping with the World Well being Group, well being promotion is the method of enabling individuals to extend management over and enhance their well being. It strikes past a deal with particular person conduct towards a variety of social and environmental interventions.
As a core operate of public well being, well being promotion helps establishments, communities, and people in dealing with and addressing well being challenges. That is achieved by constructing wholesome insurance policies, creating supportive environments, and strengthening group motion and private abilities.
