A study of current health issues focused on information for making prudent personal health decisions.
Course explores lifestyle wellness and preventive medicine concepts and practices.
Includes mental, social, sexual, physical, and environmental health topics. First Aid and CPR are taught. Students study the vocabulary associated with the allied health professions through the use of contextual clues, prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Students explore national, state, and local safety and health standards and codes as a basis for evaluating a safe working environment. Major requirements leading to standards development are identified.