Overview
Description
This course presents significant social, cultural, and behavioral topics related to public health and health promotion sciences.
Requirements
Prerequisites
PBH 101
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): PBH 101.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- discuss the history of health promotion sciences and social and behavioral sciences.
- apply basic theories and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines to a health behavior or outcome.
- describe the merits of social and behavioral science interventions and policies.
- identify individual, organizational and community assets, resources, and deficits for social and behavioral science interventions.
- specify multiple targets and levels of intervention for health promotion programming.
- develop a hypothetical health promotion and disease prevention program and outline basic steps for its planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- communicate public health information with diverse audiences; diverse audiences include non-academic, non-peer audiences, with attention to matters such as literacy and health literacy.
- communicate public health information through a variety of media.