Health Promotion, Wellness and Prevention

Catalog description

This course addresses the basic concepts of health, wellness, fitness, prevention, screening for risk, and behavior change. These concepts are applied at individual and community levels. Students perform a risk screening, and a risk assessment; they also generate goals for themselves and for a specific community with special needs. Plans geared to decrease risk and increase health and wellness are developed, implemented and evaluated. The following teaching strategies are used: lectures, small group discuss ion, classroom exercises and community experiences.