- Lecture / discussion
- Small group activities
- Case studies
- Media
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
Health, Health Education, Health Promotion
- Theories and constructs of health
- Physical, psychosocial and spiritual health
- Healthy People 2000: A new direction for health promotion
- Health education
- Health prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary
Health Professionals, Services and Delivery Systems
- Health, paraprofessional and professional staff
- Health services: Allopathic and Non-Allopathic medicine
- Problems and promises in the Canadian health care system
- Personal responsibility for health and health care
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
- Nutrition: eating for optimum health
- Weight management
- Physical fitness
- Sexuality, including reproduction and expression of sexuality
- Healthy, caring relationships
- Prochaska’s Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change
- Apply behaviour change techniques and models to one’s personal health goals
Avoiding or Overcoming Harmful Habits
- Addiction, types, process, treatment and recovery
- Safe and responsible use of pharmaceuticals
- Physiological and behavioural effects of alcohol
- Alcoholism, treatment and recovery
- Other legal addictions: caffeine and tobacco
- Illicit drug use, misuse and abuse
- Drug use and abuse and leisure cultural activities / rituals for example, sporting events, rites of passage, after event activities
Preventing and Responding to Disease
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cancer
- Infections and sexually transmitted disease
- Non-infectious conditions: respiratory, neurological, digestive, musculoskeletal
- Leisure and recreation a preventative measure
- Leisure, recreation and health promotion
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- describe health, health education and health promotion
- describe the range of health care professionals, services and delivery systems
- demonstrate a healthy lifestyle
- identify harmful habits and describe how to avoid or overcome them
- explain how to decrease risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, infectious and sexually transmitted diseases and other non-infectious conditions
- apply leisure and recreation in health promotion and decreasing risk of disease
- apply behaviour change techniques in order to improve personal health
This course will conform to ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations
An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. Typical means of evaluation will include a combination of written assignments, presentations and testing.
This is a graded course.
A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.
Resources include:
- Selected readings from a variety of health and therapeutic recreation journals
- Selected audio-visual and computer resources
- Selected readings from books and journals