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P6727  Preventive health behavior

Recommended prerequisites: P6400, and P6103 or P6104. First in the sequence of SMS courses required for all Health Promotion track students.
Provides an overview of health promotion and disease prevention in public health. Examines the contribution of health behaviors to morbidity and mortality and introduces students to leading theories of health behavior change. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the role of community-based health promotion programs in public health. Topics covered include past, current, and future trends in health promotion; the influence of social factors on health behaviors; the use of ecological models in designing health promotion programs; individual-, group-, and community-level theories of health promotion and behavior change; approaches to needs assessment and planning; community collaborations in health promotion; challenges to evaluating community health promotion programs; efficacy of community-level interventions; and the role of Healthy People 2010 in setting health objectives for the nation.

3 points