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1: Introduction to Personal Health

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Learning 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


This page titled 1: Introduction to Personal Health is shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Judy Baker via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform.

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