
The Health Promotion program focuses on promoting healthy lifestyles, preventing disease and optimizing overall health and well-being among Army personnel, their Families and DA Civilians.
Program Areas of Focus
- Behavioral health: Enhancing psychological health and reducing self-destructive behavior.
- Environmental and social health: Promoting sustainable healthy lifestyles and proactive health policies.
- Health education: Raising awareness about healthy behaviors and preventive practices.
- Physical health: Promoting physical fitness and wellness.
- Spiritual health: Fostering spiritual growth.
Program Components
- Health education and awareness: Providing information, resources and tools to educate individuals about healthy behaviors, lifestyle choices and preventive health practices.
- Health promotion campaigns: Launching targeted campaigns and initiatives to raise awareness about specific health issues, promote healthy behaviors and encourage participation in preventive health activities.
- Health screenings and assessments: Conducting regular health screenings, assessments and evaluations to identify health risks, monitor health status and provide early intervention when necessary.
- Tobacco cessation and substance misuse prevention: Offering support, resources and programs to help individuals quit smoking, vaping or using tobacco products, as well as address substance misuse issues through education, prevention and intervention efforts.
- Wellness activities: Offering a variety of wellness programs, activities and events aimed at promoting physical fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep hygiene and other aspects of well-being.
Health, Physical and Spiritual Resources
General
- Employee Assistance Program is designed to assist employees, including managers, work through life challenges while they continue to fulfill their work responsibilities.
- Employee Health Services Handbook provides policy guidance to assist agency management and program administrators in developing and implementing comprehensive employee health services programs.
- Federal Employee Health Care Guide offers information about enrollment in health, dental, vision and life insurance, flexible spending accounts and long-term care insurance.
- Health Risk Communications provides comprehensive support to help organizations identify, analyze, and plan for risk communication issues during various stages of response to assist with mission success.
- Reports about Behavioral and Social Health in the Military offers trends and outcomes in suicidal behavior, depression, anxiety, substance use, and sexual harassment and assault.
Physical Health
Articles- Active Living gives information about how regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your overall health.
- Men’s Health discusses statistics and healthy versus unhealthy habits for men.
- Women’s Health discusses statistics and healthy versus unhealthy habits for women.
- Army Body Fat Calculator provides a more accurate assessment of body fat.
- Army Body Composition Program ensures that all Soldiers achieve and maintain optimal well-being and performance under all conditions.
- Resilience in Focus series offers tips and practices to become physically resilient, build self-confidence and the ability to lead yourself and others through tough situations in life.
Spiritual Health
- Army Chaplain Corps provides religious support and advises on matters of spirituality and religion to build strong, ready teams to deploy, fight, and win our Nation’s wars.
- Resilience in Focus series offers tips and practices to build spiritual readiness to be able to sustain oneself through all aspects of life, especially during times of stress, hardship or tragedy.
Tobacco Cessation and Substance Misuse
Articles- Tobacco-Free Living and Vaping discusses the harmful effects of tobacco product use on Army readiness to include reduced physical performance, delayed healing from injury, and increased likelihood of illness.
- Army Substance Abuse Program provides services that are proactive and responsive to the needs of the Army´s workforce and that emphasize alcohol and other drug misuse deterrence, prevention, education and rehabilitation.
- Tobacco Cessation: Guidance on Establishing Programs Designed to Help Employees Stop Using Tobacco provides policy guidance and program recommendations for workplace tobacco cessation programs
- Tobacco Information and Prevention Source provides a comprehensive array of information and resources, including publications on stopping the use of tobacco.