Foundations of Public Health and Community Wellness.

Catalog description

This course provides a practical approach to the fundamentals of public health. It is organized into two sections: Public Health Fundamentals and Community Wellness. The first section covers key concepts in public health: The ecological model of health, history of public health, controversial issues in public health, social determinants of health, biostatistics, epidemiology, and biomedical sciences. The second section of the course; Community Wellness, focuses on physical fitness, community and environmental health. Students will appreciate how politics and policymaking are inherent to public health in action; they will gain perspective on the range of programs that public health practitioners implement in order to improve health; they will understand that well-designed and conducted research underlie public health work; finally, students will recognize how movements for change have advanced and continue to advance achievement toward public health goals. ( DVSY , GEDI , GEGR )