This course will provide a conceptual framework for health promotion and disease/injury prevention which includes an interprofessional model to provide optimal health for people, animal, plant and environmental health. The foundation for the conceptual framework is built on public health policy and basic epidemiological principles. Course content focuses on definitions of health promotion and disease/injury prevention, risk and its relation to disease, assessment of risk, interventions to minimize risk/promote health, constraints to health education programming and compliance issues, health promotion and disease/injury prevention issues after disabiity and evaluation of health promotion and disease/injury prevention programs.
Semester Offered