Personal Health

Course Description

Designed to assist individuals to establish health behaviors for optimal physical, emotional, and sexual health and maintain a healthy environment.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify risk behaviors that affect health.
• Discuss how the mind and body communicate and affect wellness.
• Identify strategies to reduce stress.
• Identify ways to manage a healthy weight including diet and exercise.
• Identify strategies to build healthy relationships.
• Identify how to protect against sexually transmitted disease and AIDS.
• Identify strategies to reduce or prevent disease.
• Understand how heredity affects the health of an individual.
• Explain drug use and abuse.
• Discuss how to make healthy decisions about health and health care.
• Identify alternative medicine and some of the strengths and weakness of each.
• Identify how to work toward a healthy environment to enhance health and well-being.