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WELLNESS IS WHAT WE DO

学生健康服务提供以学生为中心的医疗保健,为所有UWSP学生提供授权和促进健康. To schedule an appointment, please call 715-346-4646. Our staff will work with you to schedule an appointment as soon as possible. If you are enrolled in courses, most visits are free at Student Health Service. If you are enrolled in summer school, you are eligible for summer services at Student Health.

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WE’RE YOUR HEALTH CARE ADVOCATE

我们将尽一切努力成为您的医疗保健倡导者,及时提供医疗服务, caring, non-judgmental and respectful manner. We welcome your input and suggestions by calling us at 715-346-4646, 联络或参与学生健康谘询委员会(SHAC),或在我们的意见箱(位于一楼等候区学生健康服务处)留言。.

SERVICES PROVIDED

ALLERGY IMMUNOTHERAPY

Because allergy immunotherapy has the potential for life-threatening allergic reactions, to ensure the safest administration possible, 学生健康服务只向符合以下标准和程序的在校学生提供免疫治疗.

CLINICAL

Student Health Service offers a wide range of primary care services. If a medical illness or injury requires specialty care, your Student Health Service provider will recommend a referral to a specialist in the area.

DIETITIAN SERVICES

Do you have questions about weight control, food allergies, gluten-free diet, vegetarianism, eating disorders, sports nutrition, or other nutrition-related concerns? Visits with the dietitian are covered by the Health fee at no additional cost to the student.

IMMUNIZATIONS

Please call us at 715-346-4646 to make an appointment.  Vaccines will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. For a list of all available immunizations and vaccinations, click here.

LABS

Open during regular clinic hours, 我们的实验室提供广泛的服务,包括静脉切开术和方便的现场检测. Complete blood counts, urinalysis, rapid strep tests, mononucleosis tests, and cultures are just a few of the various tests performed on-site.  Many of the tests performed on-site are covered by the segregated fee for Student Health Service, therefore are offered at no additional cost to the student. 

PHARMACY

我们的现场药房配备了我们的注册药剂师,是一个方便的方式来填补你的处方在校园-特别是当你感觉不舒服! 学生健康服务药房很乐意为“外地”或“家乡”医生开具的处方提供帮助. However, we may not be able to accommodate all requests. Please click here  UWSP Pharmacy Formulary to view a listing of our current, normally stocked formulary of medications. 如果您对我们如何在学生健康服务药房为您提供最好的服务有任何疑问,请致电715-346-4294与我们的药房工作人员联系.

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PEER EDUCATORS

生殖健康同伴教育者(RHPEs)是由学生健康服务中心支持的学生,他们为校园学生提供有关生殖健康的课程 Sexually Transmitted Infections, sex, love, healthy dating, and more. Their goal is to educate students about these topics in an open and exciting way. Join us on Facebook for an updated list of events!

The Seven Dimensions of Wellness

The term wellness has been applied in many ways. It is much more than just physical health, exercise, and nutrition. Wellness is multidimensional including Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, Career, Intellectual, Environmental, Social (SPECIES). 健康是对这七个健康维度的全面整合和持续增长与平衡的追求. Each dimension contributes to our own sense of wellness or quality of life, and each affects and overlaps the others. At times, one may be more prominent than others, but neglect of any one dimension for any length of time has adverse effects on overall health.

The career dimension recognizes personal satisfaction and enrichment in life through work. 它是一种从工作或选择的职业领域中获得个人成就感,同时保持生活平衡的能力. Occupational development is related to attitudes about work. 渴望为自己的事业做出贡献,对自己工作的组织和整个社会产生积极的影响,这导致了职业健康. It is essential to contribute the unique gifts, skills, and talents to work that are both personally meaningful and rewarding in order to gain purpose, happiness, and enrichment in life. 实现最佳的职业健康可以让一个人保持积极的态度,并在工作中体验到满足感和快乐.

Tips and suggestions for optimal occupational wellness include:
1. Explore a variety of career options.
2. Create a vision for your future.
3. Choose a career that suits your personality, interests, and talents.
4. Be open to change and learn new skills.

情感维度承认意识、接受和健康地表达一个人的感觉,如幸福, hope, love, joy, sadness, anger, fear, and/or stress. Emotional wellness encompasses optimism, self-esteem, and self-acceptance. 它包括管理感情和相关行为的能力,包括对局限性的现实评估, development of autonomy, and ability to cope effectively with stress. Emotional wellness also includes intimacy, independence, and interdependence. 意识到并接受自己和他人的各种感受对健康至关重要. It is important to take on challenges, take risks, and recognize conflict as being potentially healthy. Managing life in personally rewarding ways, and taking responsibility for one’s actions, will help to see life as an exciting, hopeful adventure. It is better to be aware of and accept these feelings than to deny them, and it is better to be optimistic in an approach to life than pessimistic.

Tips for optimal emotional wellness:
1. Tune in to your thoughts and feelings.
2. Cultivate an optimistic attitude.
3. Seek and provide support.
4. Learn time management skills.
5. Practice stress management techniques. 
6. Discover your specific stress relievers.
7. Generalized anxiety resources
8. Accept and forgive yourself.

环境维度是指人们通过保护地球资源来关心地球的程度. 它是一种认识到个人对空气、水和土地质量的责任的能力. The ability to make a positive impact on the quality of homes, communities, 同时了解个人选择的负面影响有助于环境健康. 环境健康是认识到地球的不稳定状态和日常习惯对自然环境的影响. 它包括维持一种生活方式,最大限度地与地球和谐相处,最大限度地减少对环境的危害.

Tips and suggestions for optimal environmental wellness:
1. Stop junk mail.
2. Conserve water and other resources.
3. Minimize chemical use.
4. Renew a relationship with the earth.
5. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: reduce the amount of pollution we generate; reuse containers, bags, and batteries; recycle paper, glass, aluminum, and plastic.

The intellectual dimension encourages creative, stimulating mental activities. 一个优秀的人在发现与他人分享天赋的潜力的同时,扩展了他或她的知识和技能. The mind should be continually exercised just like the body. To become intellectually well, it is important to explore issues related to problem-solving, critical thinking, and adaptation to change. Intellectual wellness involves spending more time pursuing personal interests and reading books, magazines, and newspapers while staying aware of current events and issues. 它是一种对新概念和经验敞开心扉的能力,可以应用于个人决策, group interaction, and community enhancement, improve skills and seek challenges in pursuit of lifelong learning.

Tips and suggestions for optimal intellectual wellness:
1. Take a course or workshop.
2. Learn or perfect a foreign language.
3. Seek out people who challenge you intellectually.
4. Read.
5. Attend museums, exhibits, and theaters.
6. Learn to appreciate art.

The physical dimension recognizes the need for regular physical activity. 身体发育促进对饮食和营养的了解,同时阻止使用烟草, drugs, and excessive alcohol consumption. 最好是食用增进健康的食物和饮料,而不是那些损害健康的食物和饮料. 身体健康是一种保持健康生活质量的能力,它使一个人在日常活动中没有过度的疲劳或身体压力. Optimal physical wellness is met through a combination of good exercise and eating habits. Improving physical wellness consists of building physical strength, flexibility, 同时采取安全预防措施,包括医疗自我保健和适当使用医疗系统,以及保护自己免受伤害和伤害. The physical dimension of wellness involves personal responsibility, disease prevention, and care for minor illnesses, and also knowing when professional medical attention is needed. 身体健康和感觉良好通常会带来增强自尊的心理好处, self-control, determination, and a sense of direction.

Tips and suggestions for optimal physical wellness:
1. Exercise daily.
2. Get adequate sleep. 
3. Prevent injuries by using seat belts, wearing helmets, and other protective equipment. 
4. Learn to recognize early signs of illness and prevent diseases. 
5. Practice safe sex, if sexually active. 
6. Eat a variety of healthy foods and control meal portions.
7. Use alcohol in moderation if at all.
8. Quit smoking or continue to refrain from smoking and protect from second-hand smoke. 
9. Strive to reach and maintain a healthy weight.

Social wellness is the ability to relate to and connect with other people in the world. The ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with family, friends, and co-workers contributes to social wellness. Friends can serve as a source of encouragement and reinforcement for practicing healthy habits. The social dimension encourages one to become aware of his or her importance in society. It is vital to stay connected to people, form new relationships and participate in various social activities. 社会健康鼓励一个人积极参与改善世界,鼓励更健康的生活方式,并与他人进行更好的交流. 社会健康鼓励一个人去发现自己的力量,去做出自愿的选择,从而加强人际关系和重要的友谊, and build a better living space and community. Social wellness also includes showing respect for others, oneself, and other cultures.

Tips and suggestions for optimal social wellness:
1. Cultivate healthy relationships.
2. Resources for social anxiety
3. Strengthen current friendships, contact an old friend, or discover new friendships.
4. Get involved.

The spiritual dimension recognizes one’s search for meaning and purpose in human existence. 它包括发展对宇宙中存在的生命和自然力量的深度和广度的深刻欣赏. Spiritual wellness is the ability to establish peace and harmony in our lives. It encompasses a high level of faith, hope, 以及对我们个人信仰的承诺,这些信仰提供了人类存在的意义和目的. 与其封闭自己的思想,变得不宽容,不如思考自己生命的意义,对他人的信仰持宽容态度. Becoming spiritually well means striving for consistency with our values and beliefs.

Tips and suggestions for optimal spiritual wellness:
1. Explore your spiritual core.
2. Spend time alone/meditate regularly.
3. Be inquisitive and curious.
4. Be fully present in everything you do.
5. Listen with your heart and live by your principles.
6. Allow yourself and those around you the freedom to be who they are.
7. See opportunities for growth in the challenges life brings you.
8. Volunteer!