Health Promotion and Wellness Theories and Frameworks
This course emphasizes health promotion in diverse and changing cultures and societies. Determining and influencing factors of health are examined from a cultural competence perspective. Major health promotion, wellness, behavioral, and lifestyle theories that influence the professional practice of exercise science in community settings are integrated throughout the course. The role of the exercise scientist in health education for the prevention and treatment of health problems, health promotion, and enhancing quality of life is emphasized.
Outcomes: 1) Relate concepts of health, health promotion, and wellness that influence individual and group health and quality of life; 2) Assess the health education and health promotion needs of individuals and groups in diverse populations; 3) Design culturally congruent health education, wellness, and behavioral modification programs, focused on improved health and quality of life, in community-based settings; 4) Implement health education, wellness, health promotion, and behavioral modification programming for diverse populations; 5) Evaluate health education, wellness, health promotion and behavioral modification programming in a variety of settings, using an outcomes-oriented approach; 6) Identify cultural, social, economic, and political influences on decision making and action in health and wellness.
Outcomes: 1) Relate concepts of health, health promotion, and wellness that influence individual and group health and quality of life; 2) Assess the health education and health promotion needs of individuals and groups in diverse populations; 3) Design culturally congruent health education, wellness, and behavioral modification programs, focused on improved health and quality of life, in community-based settings; 4) Implement health education, wellness, health promotion, and behavioral modification programming for diverse populations; 5) Evaluate health education, wellness, health promotion and behavioral modification programming in a variety of settings, using an outcomes-oriented approach; 6) Identify cultural, social, economic, and political influences on decision making and action in health and wellness.