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Physical Health

Looking after your physical health into adulthood isn't just about attending hospital or doctors appointments. Maintaining physical health improves our mental wellbeing and also makes sure our heart and body is healthy, so we can keep doing the things we enjoy.

What does good physical health look like?

When you have an additional need, there might be some parts of your physical health that are out of your control. But, there are lots of other things you can do to achieve a healthy lifestyle, including:

  • becoming fitter, stronger or more flexible
  • maintaining a good sleep routine
  • maintaining a balanced diet
  • cutting down unhealthy habits such as smoking
  • practicing good personal hygiene
  • taking your recommended medication

or all of the above.

Managing your physical health can also help improve your mental health as the two are closely linked.

If you're over the age of 14 and have an additional need, you may be entitled to a free annual health check. Annual health checks are not something that you should be worried about, they are a chance for your doctor to take a closer look at how you are doing – making sure you're healthy.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be tricky, to help you keep on top of things try:

  • starting small and making just one or two healthy changes to your routine - you will soon start noticing the difference
  • setting achievable goals and rewarding yourself when you reach them - it doesn't matter how long it takes you to reach the goal
  • asking family or friends to help you on your health journey - this could mean asking them to remind you to take medication
  • making exercise fun - find something that gets you moving but you enjoy doing, like dancing

Services and support

Services for Young People - health and emotional wellbeing

SFYP offers a range of programmes to help support young people with their health and emotional wellbeing.

Services for Young People - sexual health

SFYP provides free sexual health information, support and advice for young people in Hertfordshire.

Healthy Hubs in Hertfordshire

Find your local hub and get free information, advice and support to help you stay healthy and well.

Sports in Herts

Find out where you can get active in Hertfordshire.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we place small information files called 'cookies' on your computer.

Why do we use cookies?

To remember your settings, for example your language and location. This means you don’t have to keep entering these details when you visit a new page.

To find out how you use the site to help us update and improve it.

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change the settings of your web browser so that it won’t accept cookies. For more information visit AboutCookies.org.

But, doing this may stop you from using some of the online features and services on this website. 

Cookies we use

Cookies do a lot of different jobs, and we use 2 types of cookies:

Required functionality cookies – these cookies are essential for the website to work.

Performance and feature cookies – these cookies help to improve the performance and feel of this website, for example providing you with personalised services.


Take a look at a list of cookies we use on our website:

NameTypeHow we use itHow long we use the information for

ASP.Net_Sessions

 

Required functionality

An automatic cookie set by our software. 

Just for the time you are on our website.

ServerID

 

Required functionality

An automatic cookie set by our software. 

Just for the time you are on our website.

_ga

Required functionality

To track the effectiveness of our website using Google Analytics. 

2 years

saved-pages

Performance and feature

To save the pages that you visit by clicking the heart at the top of the page. 

1 month

geoPostcode

Performance and feature

This stores your postcode (or partial postcode) when we ask you for your location.

Just for the time you are on our website or 30 days (you choose this).

geoCoordinates

Performance and feature

This stores your location as a pair of latitude / longitude coordinates.

Just for the time you are on our website or 30 days (you choose this).

reckonerName-history

Performance and feature

This keeps a history of all answers submitted to the ready reckoner.

This is set in the control for each ready reckoner. If you haven't interacted with the ready reckoner for the set amount of days, the cookies are deleted.

reckonerName-content

Performance and feature

This keeps a history of what content cards are clicked on when using the ready reckoner.

This is set in the control for each ready reckoner. If you haven't interacted with the ready reckoner for the set amount of days, the cookies are deleted.

SQ_SYSTEM_SESSION

Required functionality

This used to track user sessions on forms hosted on eservices.hertfordshire.gov.uk

Just for the time you are on our website.

Third party cookies

There are links and content from other sites and services on our website. These sites and services set their own cookies.

Below are a list of cookies that the other sites and services use:

Service namePurposeMore information

Google analytics (_utma/b/c/z)

These are used to compile reports for us on how people use this site.

Cookies of the same names are also used for the same purpose by other websites such as Building Futures, Countryside Management Service and Hertfordshire LIS.

Visit the Google Analytics website for more information about the cookies they use.

You can prevent data from being collected and used by Google Analytics by installing Google's Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Google Translation - googtrans

This cookie is used to remember which language to translate each page into if you have chosen to do so.

It expires at the end of your browser session.

Bing

We use a Bing cookie to track the success of our marketing campaigns and make them more efficient.

Visit Bing to find out more about their cookies.

Google

We use a Google cookie to track the success of our marketing campaigns and make them more efficient.

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Facebook

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Twitter

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YouTube

We have a YouTube channel, which we may link to. YouTube may set some of its own cookies if you follow those links.

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Netloan

This ASP.NET_Sessionid cookie is essential for the Netloan secure online payments website to work, and is set when you arrive to the site. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

 

HotJar

This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.

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Siteimprove

These cookies are set to help us report on how people are using the site so we can improve it.

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