Better Health
What is a Health Champion?
Variously called health coaches, advocates, consultants and trainers, health champions work with people to help them to improve their health and well-being. They can help people who are ready to make changes to set and achieve realistic goals associated with their health. Health championing can take place within the workplace, a wide range of community settings and within the family. You can even be your own health champion!
The role of the Health Champion is not to give advice on health by way of nutritional or training plans. Rather, it is to inspire and motivate people, to support them as they make their own decisions about what to do, and to signpost them to qualified people in existing healthcare services who are able to give professional advice.
So, if you know someone who is ready to make lifestyle changes to improve their health, you can help them by becoming a health champion. This programme focuses on positive changes people can make in relation to healthy eating and exercise.