Overview of basic principles of nutrition including applied nutrition, selecting an adequate diet, dietary standards and guidelines, dietary problems, dietary analysis and assessment, clinical applications of nutrition.
Personal and community health and steps to reduce risk of health problems for individuals, families, and communities. Community health services and resources.
Examine the significance of wellness as it applies to the individual, community, and population as a whole.
Identify and discuss the importance of the community to solve or remediate major health issues faces by society.
Investigate the health-related activities of the various governmental, private and voluntary agencies.
Health behavior theories and models used in planning, implementing, and evaluating community-based initiatives and personal health behaviors.
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Distinguish the theoretical bases and models for health promotion and education.
Evaluate theories in public health education and community health.
Design theory-based public health education and health behavior assessment tools.
Exploration of consumer health issues: types, cost, and availability of health care, products, and services; health quackery, fads, and consumer protection.
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Review the major sources of misleading information, quackery and health fraud encountered by consumers of health products and services.
Critically appraise health information provided by radio, T.V., print sources, the Internet and similar sources of information.
Distinguish facts from fiction and apply the scientific method to interpretation of facts.
Evaluate public health as a system with inputs, processes, outputs, and results, including core functions and essential public health services.
Assess health status trends for the United States.
Specify prevention interventions directed toward health and illness and their connection to levels of care in the United States.
Evaluate emerging international health practices and programs.
Identify and analyze a current international health issue (both print and online) and conduct research for content area.
Apply methods, techniques, or processes to a project.
Describe immediate and long-term physiological and psychological effects of controlled substance use, misuse and abuse.
Determine specific actions individuals, communities, and schools can take to reduce and prevent the abuse of substances.
Research drug abuse prevention programs and resources of various governmental, private and voluntary agencies
Define epidemiology, what epidemiologists do in their field and list the purposes and uses of epidemiology.
Define the concepts of incidence and prevalence.
Define and provide examples that illustrate the concepts of epidemics and outbreaks at the national and international level.
Describe the epidemiology triangle, and the disease concepts of transmission, modes, and the chain of infection.
Differentiate between the major elements of communicable disease prevention and control, including; environment, host, quarantine, infection control, and preventive measures at the national and international level.
Compare and contrast the functions of male and female sexual organs and genitalia.
Critique the social, behavioral, psychological, and physical aspects of gender roles in culture.
Compare and contrast the elements of reproductive health, including types of birth control, their effectiveness and responsible choices regarding their use.
Describe the male and female response (physical, psychological and social) to sexual stimulation.
Identify and discuss the etiology, symptoms and signs of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), and discuss treatments, prevention, and the impact of STI's on the population today.
Investigate the root causes of the environmental crisis and solutions.
Analyze the effect of excessive human growth population and its impact in the environment and how to stabilize the human population using the sustainability strategies.
Identify and compare the foundations of a sustainable energy systems applying the principle and practices of sustainable energy in community development.
Weigh the perils of accelerated pollution and resource depletion as well as the importance of creating sustainable solutions to prevent water pollution, misuse of pesticides, hazardous and solid wastes.
Identify basic theories, concepts and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health research and practice.
Analyze settings and target audiences for health education and health promotion.
Conduct needs assessment and plan health promotion programs.
Plan, implement and evaluate health promotion programs, policies and interventions.
Assess community collaborations required to successfully deliver a health promotion intervention.
Develop a professional philosophy of health promotion/education.
Identify strategies that incorporate multicultural competence within health promotion initiatives.
Compare and contrast positive and negative feedbacks in terms of the relationship between stimulus and response with examples from each system.
Describe the location of body structures, using appropriate terminology and the major functions of each organ system.
Explain how different cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems relate to one another to maintain homeostasis.
Predict factors or situations affecting various organ systems that could disrupt homeostasis and the types of problems that would occur in the body if various organ systems could not maintain homeostasis and allowed regulated variables (body conditions) to move away from normal.
Identify and describe major patterns in quantitative data.
Critically evaluate the usefulness and limitations of quantitative data analyses.
Apply statistical techniques in analyzing quantitative data.
Use computer software to conduct to enter quantitative data and to conduct analyses.