HWP 310 - Community Outreach and Health Promotion

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Essential strategies for determining prevention-related needs for specific populations, designing culturally and educationally appropriate interventions/services, and implementing and evaluating health promotion/disease prevention programs. Use of health risk appraisals to establish baseline and evaluation data and as a motivational tool is reviewed. Principles and efficacy of lifestyle coaching is stressed; extensive role-playing. Additional emphasis is placed on learning how to develop and adapt health education programs, materials, and oral communications to reach audiences of differing literacy levels and cultural backgrounds in an effort to eliminate health disparities among race and class, and to serve an aging population. Prerequisite: HWP 153 or 154 or 155; Pre- or corequisites: SOC 221, 312. Spring.