To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. [...] Health promotion values and implications Several values are widely recognized as central to health promotion and are important in any application of the approach to policies, programs and practices: empowering (enabling individuals and communities to assume more power over the personal, socioeconomic and environmental factors that affect their health) participatory (involving all concerned at al. [...] Harm reduction in principle upholds their right to make choices around use (rather than be coerced), experience life, enjoy benefits of health, and receive care services (with a say in how those are applied to them), acknowledges their entitlement to be accorded dignity and be treated with respect and compassion, recognizing their agency and repudiating the exercise of stigma in regard to them,. [...] One example of an initiative to train and mobilize student peers is Stony Brook University’s Red Watch Band which equips peers to intervene to prevent death from overdose and encourage fellow students in cultivation of a campus of respect, responsibility, caring and kindness. [...] Harm reduction strategies related to nicotine might include: Encouraging dialogue around campus cultures of smoking The project on cultures of smoking in which several BC campuses participated gave voice to diverse experiences and perspectives, allowing for assumptions to be examined, mutual understanding to come about and collective endeavor to be pursued including more inclusive processes for p.
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