+ Health Promotion Minor
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Eppler North, 419-372-0301
Health
promotion is a systematic process designed to
enable people to increase control over, and
improve, their health. Interventions facilitate
lifestyle changes that enhance awareness, change
behavior, and create environments that support
good health practices. Health promotion efforts
focus on the individual, social, physical, economic,
and political factors that affect health, and
include such activities as the promotion of
physical fitness, healthy living, and good nutrition.
Health
promotion includes efforts to prevent ill health
through risk reduction or early detection, to
prevent avoidable complications of an irreversible,
manifest disease and to prevent reoccurrence
of ill health. In addition to reduction in morbidity
and mortality, health promotion seeks to improve
the quality of life.
Healthy
People 2010, our nation's health agenda,
describes the 10 Leading Health Indicators that
will be used to measure the health of the Nation
over the next 10 years. As a group, the Leading
Health Indicators reflect the major health concerns
in the United States at the beginning of the
21st century. They were selected on the basis
of their ability to motivate action, the availability
of data to measure progress, and their importance
as public health issues. Health promotion and
disease prevention efforts focus primarily on
improvement in the Leading Health Indicators:
- Physical
Activity
- Overweight
and Obesity
- Tobacco
Use
- Substance
Abuse
- Responsible
Sexual Behavior
- Mental
Health
- Injury
and Violence
- Environmental
Quality
- Immunization
- Access
to Health Care
Minor:
21 hours minimum — click 
for 2008-2009 course requirements
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