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Victoria, BC · Evidence-Based · Private Health & Well-being

Your health,
strategically
designed.

One trusted expert overseeing your Health & Well-being Portfolio. Evidence-based, private, and built around your real life — not a clinic appointment.

If you're looking for something systematic, structured, and consistent — a strategy that actually works — keep reading.

Your physician treats what's broken.
We build — and protect — what keeps you whole.

We manage your health and well-being as a personal Health & Well-being Portfolio — assessing every dimension holistically, tracking measurable progress, and adjusting your strategy as your life evolves.

99% of your health and well-being happens outside the clinic — in your kitchen, your routines, your home, your daily choices. Yet the healthcare system only engages with the 1% it can measure in a 15-minute appointment. PHS exists for the other 99% — the daily decisions that shape your long-term health and well-being.

Our approach is grounded in Salutogenesis — the science of what actively creates health, rather than what causes disease. Developed by medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky, it focuses on building the inner resources and resilience that allow a person to stay well and thrive through life's stresses. We don't just reduce your risks; we strengthen the foundations that generate lifelong health.

And we see health differently. Most people treat health as an expense — a cost that arises only when something breaks. We see it as the highest-return investment you will ever make: not an expense to manage, but an asset to grow. The returns are paid in the things that matter most — independence, vitality, and more healthy years with the people you love.

In Greater Victoria, private long-term care can cost $9,000 to $15,000 every month — and the wait for a publicly subsidized bed averages close to a year. Why wait for the crisis when you can invest, today, in the health portfolio that helps you avoid it?

20+
Years of applied experience in chronic disease prevention and behaviour change
99%
Of your health decisions happen outside the clinic — PHS focuses exactly there
1:1
Selective, private service — a limited number of clients served with full attention
International Recognition
WHO Healthy Cities Framework Contributor
Ron Pollachek developed indicators for the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities Framework — a global initiative, built on the science of the social determinants of health, shaping how communities design environments that support long-term health and well-being. This international credential, combined with a PhD in Health Sciences and Master of Public Health, defines the calibre of expertise behind every PHS engagement.

A coherent science
of creating health.

PHS is not built on health trends. It rests on four established, peer-reviewed pillars that work together — from understanding what creates health, to the conditions that shape it, to how lasting change actually happens, to how we track and grow it.

The Orientation
Salutogenesis
Antonovsky's model of what actively creates health rather than what causes disease. We strengthen your Sense of Coherence and resilience — the foundations that let you stay well and thrive.
The Conditions
Social Determinants of Health
Health is shaped by environment, relationships, and daily conditions — not willpower alone. This is the science behind the WHO Healthy Cities Framework Ron helped build, applied here at the level of the individual and family.
The Method
Behaviour Change Science
Evidence-based models (COM-B and Self-Determination Theory) explain how lasting change really happens — by shaping capability, opportunity, and motivation, and by designing environments where the healthy choice becomes the easy choice.
The Vehicle
Health & Well-being Portfolio
We treat your health as an asset to grow, not an expense to manage — assessed across every dimension, captured in a personal Profile, and tracked over time so you can see your return in independence, vitality, and healthy years.

Together: Salutogenesis sets the orientation, the social determinants reveal the conditions, behaviour change science drives the method, and the Health & Well-being Portfolio makes it tangible.

Choose your path
to better health.

A note on honesty: science is clear that there is no "quick fix" for the things that matter most — weight, childhood weight concerns, or a child who refuses to try new foods. If you're looking for a shortcut, we're probably not the right fit. But if you want a strategy that genuinely works — and lasts — built collaboratively around your real life, you're in exactly the right place.

Private Health & Longevity Strategy
Older Adults
  • Comprehensive health strategy, designed & implemented
  • Physical function tracking, coordinated with your medical team
  • Private health guidance, accountability & ROI reporting
  • Family involvement where needed
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Private Health Architecture · Families
Families with Kids
  • Family health portfolio assessment
  • Kids & family behaviour change
  • Kitchen & environment design
  • Healthy cooking & baking workshops
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✦ Save 30% — Inter-generational Strategy

Health is a family story.
Build it together.

When more than one generation joins — a parent and adult child, or grandparents, parents, and grandchildren — we design one connected inter-generational strategy, and each family member saves 30%. The same trajectory that lifts a child's foundation protects a grandparent's independence — health, strengthened across an entire family, for life.

Ron Pollachek,
PhD, MPH

Health & Well-being Strategist · Healthspan Architect · Victoria, BC

Over two decades of applied experience in chronic disease prevention, childhood obesity prevention, and behaviour change — combined with rare international recognition through his contribution to the WHO Healthy Cities Framework.

Ron's approach treats your health and well-being as a personal portfolio: systematically assessed, strategically managed, and continuously refined. Private, selective, and grounded in evidence-based practice. He is a health strategist and consultant, not a medical doctor.

PhD in Health Sciences · Master of Public Health
WHO Healthy Cities Framework — designed indicators for this global health & well-being initiative
20+ years — chronic disease, childhood obesity & behaviour change
A decade of physical fitness instruction
A decade of studies, work and engagement with First Nations
Founder of a first-of-its-kind NGO aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity and chronic disease
Highest standards of privacy and professional ethics
"The goal is never just a longer life. It's a longer life lived in genuine health and well-being — with independence, purpose, and vitality intact."
— Ron Pollachek, PhD, MPH
Older Adults → Families →

Real results across
both service lines.

"

I feel more in control of my health than ever before.

Older Adult Client
"

Our mornings are finally calm, and I know I'm setting my kids up for a healthy future.

Family Client
"

It's like having a high-level health consultant for our home.

Family Client
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PHS provides health strategy, education, and accountability — it does not diagnose, treat, prescribe, or replace medical care. We work alongside your physician, not instead of them.