Health Detective

Health is more than avoiding a cold or being physically fit. Your body, thoughts, emotions and relationships all play a part. Become a Health Detective and investigate everyday situations to discover what can strengthen — or challenge — our overall wellbeing.

HealthAllies presents health as something multidimensional. Physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing influence one another, and being healthy may look different for different people. Young people are encouraged to understand the factors that affect their health and identify healthy habits that can support their own needs.

During this activity, you will investigate different everyday situations and think about the different parts of wellbeing they might affect.

In this activity, you will become a Health Detective and investigate different situations that can affect your wellbeing. You will explore everyday scenarios involving things like sleep, movement, friendships, emotions and healthy habits, and decide which areas of wellbeing they might affect: physical, mental, emotional or social. You may discover that one situation can affect several areas at the same time! Finally, you will look at your own daily life and identify one habit that helps you take care of more than one part of your wellbeing.

This supports the idea that health combines different dimensions of wellbeing and that different factors and habits can affect our health in different ways.