Health Behaviors and Social Responsibility

Catalog description

Health is dictated by behaviors as well as genetics. This course examines common health risk behaviors that eventually could lead to disability or death later in life. Each of the risk behaviors will be explored for possible social, mental, physical, emotional, and environmental impacts and how each contributes to overall wellness. Social marketing is a persuasion technique to "sell" behavior modification ideas to prevent disease and disability. Students will create and market a health behavior plan for a designated group that incorporates content covered in class. Students will also look at own personal health behaviors and create a strategy to enhance personal health.