You should be aware that self-esteem is a potentially problematic idea to
wrap your health promotion actions around.  You may wish to consider the
monograph:

HP-10-0104
Self-Esteem and Health: Should it be a Focus?
Dennis Raphael, Ph.D., C. Psych, University of Toronto, Canada
$20.00, 1993, 35 pages
Examines the relationship between self-esteem and health status and
health-related behaviours. Reviews recent health-related research focused
upon self-esteem as an indicator of health, a mediator of life stress and a
reinforcer for health-related behaviours.

The Series in Health Promotion is a collection of educational monographs
produced by the Centre for Health Promotion in co-operation with
ParticipACTION. Resources can be ordered by printing the order form and
sending to ParticipACTION.
http://www.utoronto.ca/chp/p-titles.htm#_Hlk476405637

Please email ParticipACTION or phone (416) 954-1212 for more information.
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  Long have I looked for the truth about the life of people together.
  That life is crisscrossed, tangled, and difficult to understand.
  I have worked hard to understand it and when I had done so
  I told the truth as I found it.

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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
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Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
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