Colleges and Universities Should Give More Broad-Based Attention to Health and Wellness—At All Levels

Abstract

Higher Education needs to give more broad-based attention to health and wellness. Our graduates will all have to deal with the facts that the general state of health of Americans is not good and our national health care system is badly in need of reform. We should offer innovative approaches to helping our graduates establish positive, lifetime health habits and we should demonstrate to them our own model approaches to promoting health and wellness through more effective health insurance and worksite wellness programs.

Acknowledgments

Dr Kupchella served as president of the University of North Dakota from 1999 to 2008. He is also a past President of the American Association for Cancer Education. He is an active member of C-Change, a national collaborative striving to eliminate cancer as a major killer at the earliest possible time.