Health Calendar

A personal health calendar is a written or digital tool used to record the dates of items impacting your health and wellness.

Tips & Links

• Health calendars can be in print (journal or regular calendar) or digital(phone or computer) formats.
• Items to include and track in your health calendar can include health care appointments, medication changes, changes in your health (new symptoms, pain, or improvements following medications or treatments), vaccinations, and annual screening tests.
• Check your family health history for health conditions you should be screened for regularly.
• Learn how to assess your pain and how to communicate your pain levels and what you need from the Canadian Cancer Society.
• Learn how you can use your Health Gateway BC account to collect your health information.
• Keep a record of your new or chronic pain and other symptoms. Include when it started, description and location of the pain, time of day, any connection to food or activities, impact on your sleep. A good description can help health care providers find the source and plan treatment.
• Use the health calendar in your Mywell Health planner in the section My Health Information . Keep an updated print copy in your Mywell Health binder.

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