Skills-Based Approach to Health Education

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the National Health Education Standards and essential components of an effective health education program. Aligned with current best practices of the health education field, students will focus on key elements of a skills-based approach. Topics of study may include acquisition of functional health information, fostering of health-enhancing attitudes, development of health skills and adoption of health behaviors to promote personal, family and community health.