Health Promotion Across the Lifespan Credits: 3

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students with a strong knowledge base related to concepts of health promotion and health protection for clients across the life span. Clients are conceptualized as individuals, families, groups, and communities. An application of various developmental theories for the infant, child, adult, older adult and family will provide the foundation to individualize health-care needs based on inclusive criteria, which refers to but is not limited to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, exceptionality, and age. Core concepts for the course include theories of health and health promotion and protection, reasoned action, health belief model, epidemiology, disease and injury prevention, health education, growth and development, nutrition, and family systems theory.