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P8772  Planning and implementing health promotion programs

Prerequisite: P6727 Preventive Health Behaviors, or instructor's permission.

This course is the second in a series of three required courses for the Health Promotion track. Students outside this track are encouraged to complete the first course, Preventive Health Behavior (P6727), before enrolling in this course. Students registering in this course should have an elementary understanding of needs assessment and the use of health behavior theory for program planning.

Most health promotion programs fail, often because their design is based on precedent, tradition or intuition, rather than on health behavior theory and research. Students in this course will learn and practice a comprehensive, theory- and evidence-based approach to designing multi-level, community-based health promotion programs that can substantially improve the success of public health programs.

3 points