Foundations of Public Health, Health Promotion and School Health

Catalog description

The course introduces students in Foundations of Public Health, Health Promotion and Health Education. The emphasis to the conceptual and methodological approaches to Public Health, Health Promotion and Health Education and the application to school enviro nment. Through lectures and discussion groups will analyze the historical perspectives, approaches, structures and programmatic orientations tie to school health scope in Puerto Rico and in the international community. At the end of the course, the students will evaluate models associated with school health education in Puerto Rico and the international community from the perspective of Public Health.