Course Details

Health is a complex and dynamic subject. In the digital age, medical and health information can come from reliable and unreliable resources, so it is necessary to review the data and seek out evidence from experts. As educators, we must provide our students with the most current and reliable health information available and teach skills that will help students determine which information is fact and which is fiction.

This course offers the latest information on various contemporary health issues, from promoting healthy behavior change and nutritional health to the medical effects of exercise. Other topics include stress and mental health, weight management, physical activity, drugs and health, sexuality and relationships, preventing and fighting disease, safety and first aid, and contemporary health hazards.

Goals
a. Become familiar with up-to-date information by presenting current topics of information based on scientific evidence.
b. Become familiar with healthy behavior change.
c. Become familiar with how stress affects physical and mental health.
d. Recognize contemporary health issues.
e. Understand information regarding prevention of disease.
f. Understand issues relating to the healthcare system and consumer health.
g. Understand the special challenges of obesity and weight loss.

Course Contents
a. Promoting healthy behavior change
b. Stress and mental health
c. Nutritional health
d. Exercise and weight management
e. Drugs and health
f. Sexuality and relationships
g. Preventing and fighting disease
h. Health care and the health care system
i. Consumer health
j. Contemporary health hazards

This course is applicable towards the following certificate(s):
*Health and Human Development

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