Health

Health courses provide students with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavioral changes, and become savvy consumers of health information.

Topics include:

• Promoting Healthy Behavioral Change
• Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well
• Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges
• Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments
• Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments
• Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility
• Licit and Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Daily Pleasure, Daily Challenges
• Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health
• Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance
• Personal Fitness: Improving Health through Exercise
• Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk
• Cancer: Reducing Your Risk
• Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities
• Life's Transitions: The Aging Process
• Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
• Consumerism: Selecting Healthcare Products and Services
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers