Allyn and Bacon Pub. Accompanying the text. Additional readings will be assigned throughout the semester as handout materials. This is an overview of health related issues and concerns pertinent to college students. The integration of biological, psychological, and sociological factors which affect personal health behavior are the components of this class.
Emphasis is placed on promoting personal responsibility and control of health behavior.
This is an approved General Education course. As a class, we will be concerned with issues, problems, trends that affect your life as a college student. The future of ones own health is largely dependent on how one lives today. In addition, health is directly and indirectly related to environmental factors that affect the community. The dimensions of health, social, economic and political arenas are specifically related to how we view values, beliefs and attitudes.