MEDA 132 - Introduction to Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Credits 3
This course provides an overview of the major issues in health promotion, personal health and disease prevention. This includes an introduction to strategies for promoting health and wellness, the major causes of premature mortality and morbidity, behavioral and environmental contributions to illness and injury, as well as strategies for risk reduction.

Course Outcomes

Describe dimensions of health and concepts of wellness.
Identify social determinants of health.
Describe the importance of health literacy to enhancing health.
Assess the quality of a website for health information.
Demonstrate an ability to identify, use and critically evaluate different types of health information.
Explain the difference between generic drugs and brand-name drugs.
Identify the major physical and psychological health concerns of our nation.
Describe how personal decisions and behaviors affect health and impact the most common lifestyle diseases.
Identify basic principles of nutrition and ways to obtain/maintain a healthy body composition.
Describe and discuss the health related components of physical fitness and techniques for developing a personal exercise program.
Discuss the stress response, ways the body responds to stress, and how stressful life events can affect health and contribute to disease.
Identify healthy ways to cope with stress.