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What is health coaching?

​Health coaching is the practice of health education and health promotion within a coaching context to enhance the well-being of individuals and to facilitate the achievement of their health-related goals.

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Health coaching incorporates evidence-based health behaviour change interventions and techniques from behavioural medicine research literature, positive psychology, health and coaching psychology, and athletic and performance coaching. It can be used in health promotion, prevention, early intervention, treatment and management of chronic conditions such as in lifestyle medicine. Using the Transtheoretical Model health coaching identifies the patient’s stage of change, guiding clients to take stage-appropriate actions to increase confidence or importance and therefore moving clients towards readiness.

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COACHING 

The coach may successfully figure out the reasons for health problems. Maybe this is happening because of stress at work. Maybe the patient/client is not taking a protein/fat-rich lunch and so on.

Holistic health coaches help people to overcome these roadblocks.

Health coaches focus on internal and external health conditions. They help to reduce insurance premiums and medical costs.

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