2 Introduction to Personal Health Overview & Objectives
Overview
Introduction to Personal Health covers four topics:
- Health and disease, influence of family and community
- Culture, beliefs, attitudes, and stigmatized illnesses
- Leading causes of death, risk factors, and prevention
- Three levels of health promotion/disease prevention
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Define health
- Demonstrate understanding of the role of health in the practice of health promotion
- Discuss the concepts of health, health education, health promotion and some related terms
- Identify social determinants of health
- List the levels of disease prevention
- Know the two overarching goals of Healthy People 2010
- Identify the dimensions of health disparity as described in Healthy People 2010
- Provide a literal definition of the term “disparity”
- Interpret three definitions of health disparity
- Distinguish between the terms “health inequality” and “health inequity
