Health Promotion is designed to educate and encourage all active duty, civilian personnel, and family members to maintain or improve their health and well-being by adopting healthy lifestyles. The elements of a healthy lifestyle include: physical, social, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental wellness.
Health Promotion deals with behaviors that can be modified, including eating habits, physical activity, cardiovascular risk factors, stress management, and tobacco use. Improving behavior in these areas contributes to living a healthy, happy, and productive life both at work and at home!
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Coast Guard Health Promotion Program Elements:
1. Nutrition and Weight Management
4. Substance Abuse Prevention and Education
The regional Health Promotion Manager (HPM) educates through training and education seminars, publications and newsletters, audiovisual media, and health screenings. The HPM helps all beneficiaries make voluntary behavior changes that reduce health risks, and improve quality of life.
The HPM also conducts comprehensive health and wellness assessments using the WELLSOURCE (c) Personal Wellness Profile (PWP) for all-hands, civilian employees, and family members. Twice a year we also conduct a two-day Fit & Well Seminar at both Coast Guard Island and TRACEN Petaluma that is open to all beneficiaries.
The following services can be arranged either with your unit Health Promotion Coordinator (HPC) or the HPM.
Personal Wellness Profile
A questionnaire designed to evaluate your lifestyle habits and provide
recommendations to modify unhealthy behaviors. Health screenings- blood
pressure, body fat composition, and cholesterol- and/or a physical fitness
assessment can also be administered as a part of the PWP. For more
information visit:
Personal Wellness Profiles,
Cholesterol Screenings.
Physical Activity & Fitness
Intended to provide education and evaluation of fitness status and skills to
improve your health lifestyle. The Physical Fitness Program also provides
guidance to members who must meet fitness requirements for qualification
(i.e., boarding teams, small boat crewmen, rescue swimmers, boot camp
recruits, OSC and the Academy). For more information visit:
Physical Fitness Program website, and download
Physical Activity and Fitness (.pdf) plan.
Nutrition
Stress Management
Tobacco Cessation
Weight Management
Substance Abuse Awareness & Prevention
Wellness Counseling
Unit Health Promotion Coordinators
CG Health & Wellness Publications
Wellness Newsletters
Resources for Unit Health Promotion Coordinators Unit
HPC’s may obtain
information, materials, and guidance for unit program planning from the
Health Promotion Manager. Contact information is located in the box above. The
following is a list of some of the most
frequently requested materials:
Please Note:
Links from this page to non-Coast Guard sites are provided as a customer
service and do not represent any implicit or explicit endorsement by the
United States Coast Guard of any commercial or private issues or products
presented there.
Nutrition
Stress Management
Weight Management
Family Health
Physical Activity & Fitness
Self Assessments
Tobacco Cessation
Coast Guard Health Services General Health
Substance Abuse
Heart Health Unit
Health Promotion Coordinator Links of Interest
Contact Information: Mr. Alexander "Alex" Eclar
Provides information and assessment of healthy eating habits and the
use of skills to improve your dietary intake. For more information visit:
Nutrition and Weight Management .
Intended to provide you with tools to evaluate the status of your stress
health and to increase the awareness, education, and intervention methods
for successfully managing stress. For more information go to the website Stress
Management, and also complete this short
Stress Assessment (.pdf)
Intended to help you stop the use of tobacco products through awareness,
education, and intervention. Timely intervention can result in the
prevention of illness, disability, and death - of which tobacco use is the
primary cause. For more information go to the website
Tobacco Cessation; and also complete these short assessment forms:
Why Do You Smoke? (.pdf) and
Are You Ready to Quit? (.pdf)
Intended to assist you in gaining or losing weight in a safe and healthy
manner through education and behavior change methods. In turn, active duty
members can learn how to stay in compliance with the CG Weights standards.
For more information go to the website
Weight Management; and also calculate your BMI at
Weight Policy Resource Guide. Download the
Weight Management Self-Help Guide (.pdf).
Intended to raise awareness about the health risks associated with alcohol
and drug abuse. For more information go to the website
Substance Abuse Prevention and Education. Are you concerned that you
might have a problem with alcohol? The self-assessment:
Do You Have a Drinking Problem? (.pdf) will provide you with more
information.
Personal counseling & guidance is available to you on the above programs
from the regional HPM
and/or your unit HPC.
Resources
The collateral duty unit HPC
is your primary local resource for information, programs, and guidance on
wellness issues. This is the person you can interact with in person. The HPC
can provide basic information, resources, and training; and coordinates
health promotion activities at the local level. Most CG units have
designated an HPC.
To find out who the HPC is for your unit, contact your Yeoman, Executive
Officer or call Work Life.
The following are links to CG-specific Health Promotion publications:
The following are links to some of the most popular and reliable wellness
newsletters. You may subscribe and then automatically receive the
newsletter(s).
A weekly
newsletter distributed by the Health Promotion Manager. Includes short
articles and information from a variety of sources on nutrition, weight
management, fitness, and risk reduction. The
HPM position is currently vacant and the newsletter is not available.
A two page monthly newsletter covering one specific aspect of nutrition
and fitness each issue. Published by TRICARE and distributed by the
Health Promotion Manager. Once the HPM is hired, this newsletter should
be available via email through the HPM.
From one of the most respected and best-known medical centers in the
country is the Mayo Clinic's free, weekly e-newsletter providing the
latest health information. To obtain more information and subscribe to
Mayo Clinic Newsletter.
Published by the University of California School of Public Health. To
obtain more information and subscribe visit
UC Berkeley Wellness.
A major source of health information including online newsletters and
numerous publications from Harvard Medical School. To obtain more
information and subscribe visit the
Harvard University Health Newsletters.
Links
American Dietetics Association
Berkeley Nutrition
Dole 5 a day
Grains Nutrition Center
Tufts University Nutrition
Food Guide Pyramids
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
LOL to good health
Emotional Wellness
Free Books
Overeater's Anonymous
Weight Watchers
Weigh Down Ministries
Shape Up America
ediets.com
American Diabetes Assoc.
LIFELINES
Learn CPR
CDC
WebMD
Bike to Work Site
Law Enforcement PT
Desktop Ergonomics
LifeScan
Self Challenge
CDC Quit Smoking Resource
Planning a Program
QuitNet
Health and Safety
Tricare
Virtual Naval Hospital
Armed Services YMCA
Health & Living
Self Care
The Mayo Clinic
VITALITY magazine on-line!
healthfinder
Merck Manual
National Sleep Foundation
Drinking and Driving
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Alcoholism in the Workplace
Nat.Council on Alcohol
Cholesterol Information
AHA cholesterol information
Preventing High Blood Pressure
BP Recommendations
Cardiovascular Health Fact Sheet
National Health Information Center
American Council on Exercise
510-437-3186
Alexander.D.Eclar@uscg.mil