DISEASE PREV & HLTH PROMO CONCEPTS

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to help prepare health professionals as leaders in the field of disease prevention and health promotion. Students will learn the value of and barriers to disease prevention and health promotion, how to identify and use federal public health data sets, factors that influence personal health decisions, preventive interventions directed at individuals (clinical settings) and populations (community settings), strategies for using population health principles to integrate disease prevention and health promotion into routine clinical and public health practice, and the organization of federal agencies that fund disease prevention and health promotion activities.