The University Counseling Center has a full-time Health Educator on staff whose primary focus is to do health promotion on campus. A comprehensive wellness model of health promotion is employed that considers the integration of mind, body and spirit as a key component of health education programming. The model addresses not only information dissemination, but also theory, process and skill building. We focus on teaching prevention, so that students can acquire information and assistance that will help them to maintain optimal levels of health and wellness throughout their lives.
Most people think of being healthy as being free of disease.
Today, however, we know that health goes much deeper. The idea is that all of these aspects of ourselves are interconnected. This means that if you are not healthy in one dimension, it has an impact on all the others. Health Promotion at the University at Albany Educational programming in the area of primary prevention and health promotion consists of many different types of outreach. Workshops and presentations are offered in residence halls, academic classes, for Greek organizations and other student groups.