HPE-212 Health
This course is intended for any student interested in the benefits of a healthy lifestyle obtained through behavior changes. The course focuses on behaviors and lifestyle factors that affect individual well-being and disease. Emphasis is placed on how physical, emotional, social, intellectual, environmental, spiritual and occupational wellness relates to overall health. Students earn certification in child abuse identification and reporting.
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Course Outline
Department
Health Science and Human Performance
Course Description
This course is intended for any student interested in the benefits of a healthy lifestyle obtained through behavior changes. The course focuses on behaviors and lifestyle factors that affect individual well-being and disease. Emphasis is placed on how physical, emotional, social, intellectual, environmental, spiritual and occupational wellness relates to overall health. Students earn certification in child abuse identification and reporting.
Credit Hours
3Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify fundamental concepts related to health and wellbeing.
- Complete a lifestyle behavior change (e.g. Stop smoking, begin an exercise regime, integrate a healthier diet).
- Obtain certification for the recognition and reporting of child abuse.
- Apply connections between course concepts and personal experience.
Topic Outline
- 1. Taking charge of your health
- a. Dimensions of wellness
- b. Choosing wellness
- c. Lifestyle management for reaching wellness
- 2. Stress: the constant challenge
- a. Defining stress, its sources, and how to manage it
- b. Stress and health
- 3. Psychological health
- a. Defining psychological health and disorders
- b. Suicide signs and prevention
- c. Models of change and getting psychological help
- 4. Nutrition basics
- a. Components of a healthy diet
- b. Nutritional guidelines
- c. Informed choices about food
- 5. Exercise for health and fitness
- a. Defining physical fitness and activity
- b. Benefits of exercise
- c. How to design, start, and continue an exercise program
- 6. Weight management
- a. Concepts of weight management
- b. Body fat factors and issues
- c. Approaches to overcoming a weight problem
- d. Eating disorders
- e. Body image and determining a healthy weight
- 7. Intimate relationships and communication
- a. Developing relationships
- b. Communication
- c. Pairing, singlehood, marriage, and family life
- 8. Sex, pregnancy, and childbirth
- a. Anatomy, hormones, and the reproductive cycle
- b. Understanding fertility, function, and behavior
- c. Pregnancy
- d. Childbirth
- 9. Contraception and abortion
- a. Principles of contraception
- b. Reversible, permanent, and emergency contraceptive methods
- c. Choosing which method is right for you
- d. Understanding abortion and its methods
- e. Laws, debate, and physical and psychological effects of abortion
- 10. Major STDs (immunity and infection)
- a. Education, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
- b. Understanding each major sexually transmitted infection and how to protect oneself
- 11. The use and abuse of psychoactive drugs
- a. Addiction and misuse of drugs
- b. How drugs affect the body
- c. Classifications and types of drugs
- 12. Alcohol and tobacco
- a. The nature of alcohol
- b. Alcohol and health
- c. Excessive use of alcohol and how to get help
- d. Who uses tobacco and why
- e. Health hazards of tobacco to users and nonsmokers
- f. How to quit tobacco use
- 13. Cardiovascular disease and cancer
- a. The cardiovascular system
- b. Risk factors and protection for cardiovascular disease (CVD)
- c. Major forms of CVD
- d. Defining cancer
- e. Causes, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer
- f. Incidence of cancer
- g. Common cancers
- 14. Child abuse recognition and reporting
- a. Two-hour child abuse prevention training
- 15. Immunity and infection
- a. The body's immune defense system
- b. Spread of disease
- c. Types of pathogens and diseases
- 16. Environmental health
- a. Population growth, air quality, water quality, solid waste, chemical pollution, radiation, and noise pollution defined and addressed
- b. Solutions and actions for environmental wellness
- 17. Conventional and complementary medicine
- a. Self-care and professional care
- b. Conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine
- 18. Personal safety
- a. Differentiating intentional and unintentional injuries
- b. Types of injuries and injury prevention
- c. Providing emergency care
- 19. The challenge of aging
- a. Dealing with aging challenges
- b. Life-enhancing measures
- c. What is death?
- d. Planning for and coping with death and loss
- e. Coming to terms with death