“Can a selfie help you get healthy?”
Healthier communities start with healthier individuals. As health professionals, we have to help people build day-to-day habits that shape overall wellness and well-being. We must address health as an evolving and relative state of being – not a static and binary one. Health is a lifelong journey, not a destination.
Effective health behavior change interventions must be tailored for each person by finding creative ways to:
1. Assess past, current, and potential future states of health
2. Promote self-efficacy, the belief in one’s ability to accomplish goals, and
3. Develop, follow, and iterate personalized mental models, the frameworks for making daily decisions that are self-determined and self-initiated.