Our Whole Person Health approach

The Inspiring Choices Difference

Our Whole Person Health approach involves looking at the whole person, not just separate organs or body systems, and considering multiple factors that promote either health or ill-health. It means helping and empowering individuals, families, communities, and populations to improve their health in multiple interconnected biological, behavioural, social, and environmental areas. Whole person health focuses on promoting health in all aspects of life, across that person’s lifespan. ​

Whole Person Health is vital because health and ill-health are not separate disconnected states, but instead occur on a path that can move in two different directions, either toward health or toward ill-health.

On this path, many factors, including one’s biological makeup; some unhealthy behaviours, such as poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, chronic stress, and poor sleep; as well as social aspects of life, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, can lead to chronic ill-health of more than one organ system. On the other hand, self-care, lifestyle, and behavioural interventions may help with the return to health.