1: Introduction to Personal Health
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