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The document discusses CDC's efforts to examine and promote well-being. It describes how CDC has studied how measures of well-being can be integrated into public health and measured in surveillance systems. CDC also helped develop goals for quality of life and well-being for Healthy People 2020.

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Health Wellness Concepts-8

The document discusses CDC's efforts to examine and promote well-being. It describes how CDC has studied how measures of well-being can be integrated into public health and measured in surveillance systems. CDC also helped develop goals for quality of life and well-being for Healthy People 2020.

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social health).

However, in its broadest sense, well-being encompasses physical, mental,


and social domains.

The reasons why well-being and related constructs should be measured and evaluating
how these domains can be changed should help inform which domains (e.g., life
satisfaction, positive affect, autonomy, meaning, vitality, pain) should be measured, and
which instruments and methods to use.71

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What is CDC doing to examine and promote well-being?

CDC’s Health-Related Quality of Life Program has led an effort since 2007 to examine
how well-being can be integrated into health promotion and how it can be measured in
public health surveillance systems.55 A number of studies have examined the feasibility of
existing scales for surveillance, including application of item-response theory to identify
brief, psychometrically sound short-form(s) that can be used in public health surveillance
systems.72,73 CDC and three states (OR, WA, NH) collected data using the Satisfaction with
Life Scale and other well-being measures on the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System.74 CDC also led the development of overarching goals related to quality of life and
well-being for the Healthy People 2020External initiative.

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Resources

• CDC Healthy Living


• CDC Physical Activity Basics

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+References

Page last reviewed: October 31, 2018

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