Healthy Living Messages

• Be Physically Active
• Eat Wisely
• Strive for a Healthy Weight
• Get Recommended Screening Tests & Immunizations
• Be Involved in Your Health Care
• Be Tobacco Free
• Limit Alcohol
• Manage Stress
• Be Safe
  

January 2012

Be Involved in Your Health Care:  There are many ways to take an active role.  Work with your health care team to improve your health.

• Be Involved in Your Health Care: A Healthy Living Message
• Be Involved in Your Health Care: Resource Document 
• Ask Me 3: Good Questions for Your Health 
• Five Steps to Safer Health Care 
• Speak Up! 

Federal Government Resources
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HealthFinder

• Take Charge of Your Health
  Most people depend on different doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and insurance companies for their health care. It's a team effort, and you are the most important member of the team.

Agency for Health & Research Quality  (AHRQ)

• Questions Are the Answer: Build Your Question List
  Are you visiting your health care clinician or pharmacist? It is important to be prepared. Create a personalized list of questions that you can take with you.

National Institutes of Health

• Talking With Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People
  Information to assist older individuals create good communication channels between both themselves and their doctor.

Medline Plus: U.S. National Library of Medicine

• Talking With Your Doctor
  Information that will help you get the information you need and make the most of your doctor's visit.

Women's health.gov

• Tools to Help You Build a Healthier Life!
  This brief on-line publication offers tips and suggestions for talking with your doctor or nurse. It explains how to report symptoms and problems and important questions to ask about diagnosis and treatment.