PEDH 210 - Health and Wellness

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): None
Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This personal health course addresses the importance of quality-of-life issues and a dynamic style of living. The emphasis of the course is on development of a wellness lifestyle. Students explore the areas of self- responsibility, social-support networks, and community as they impact health. Factors such as stress management; nutrition and weight management; physical fitness; chronic and communicable disease; relationships; healthcare delivery including conventional and complementary medicine; aging, dying and death; environmental health and personal safety, including violence prevention/intervention; and alcohol, tobacco, and other substances prevention/ intervention will be included.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

Define and give examples of the 7 aspects of wellness
Express their feelings, personalities, likes and dislikes in healthy ways with peers, adults and through reflective writing.
Make healthy choices and educated decisions based on current research and non-biased information.
Illustrate how social support systems contribute to health and wellbeing
Define basic health terms and identify general anatomy.
Create an organized binder of information to use as a resource.
Identify reasons to become an educated health consumer.
Advocate for health and services in their communities.
Develop responsibility for both personal and community aspects of disease prevention and wellness in the present and in the future.
Understand Complementary and Alternative Medicine