BBH 316Foundations and Principles of Health Promotion
Foundations of Health Promotion, is a 3-credit course required of all BBH majors and available to other students interested in developing a basic knowledge in health promotion interventions. The course is designed to provide students with the conceptual foundation necessary to develop health promotion programs and interventions. It will involve information on both theory and practice. The educational objectives are that students will be able to: 1) define the concepts and levels of health, health promotion, and prevention; 2) describe the variety of settings in which health promotion and preventive services exist 3) identify levels of intervention in planning health education and health promotion programs; 4) describe a rationale for health promotion programs; 5) address the role of culture, environment, and policy in health behavior; 6) explain why different levels of health promotion interventions should be planned using theoretical frameworks.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “C or better in either of the following BBH 101 or BBH 101H”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Spring (3 programs).
Required in (4)
- Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Behrend)
- Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Capital)
- Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Health and Human Development)
- Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (University College)
Courses that list BBH 316 as a prerequisite (5)
- BBH 317 Community Engaged Learning for Foundations and Principles of Health Promotion
- BBH 370 Environmental Health and Sustainability
- BBH 416 Health Promotion II: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
- BBH 462 Civically Engaged Health Equity Capstone
- NUTR 409 Addressing and intervening on social determinants of nutrition inequity