Nutrition Promotion & Disease Prevention Across the Lifecycle

Catalog description

This course is designed to address the population-level lifecycle health through the lens of health promotion and disease prevention. After completing this course, learners should be able to critically consider population-specific nutrition needs across the lifecycle and design health promotion strategies to promote nutrition and prevent nutrition-related disease. Evidence-based practice and cultural competencies and social determinants of health are a focus throughout the course. The course addresses the lifecycle stages: 1) preconception, pregnancy and lactation nutrition; 2) infant nutrition; 3) toddler, preschooler and school-age child nutrition; 4) adolescent nutrition; 5) young and middle adult nutrition; 6) older adult nutrition. Key topics and population trends are also discussed including food security, maternal and child health, pediatric overweight and obesity, chronic disease prevention, optimal aging, and emerging issues in lifecycle nutrition.