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3.1: Introduction to Personal Health Overview and Objectives

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    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
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