General Course Information for COH100: Personal Health

Course: COH100 - Personal Health

Course Description: Designed to assist individuals to establish health behaviors for optimal physical, emotional, and sexual health and maintain a healthy environment.
Course 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.
Specified Program Learning Outcomes:
    • Describe the determinants and measurement s of health and disease in the population and the responsibilities of healthcare organizations to individual consumers and the community;
    • Identify the components of the health care delivery system in the united states and the impact of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental factors that affect the management and operation of health care organizations;
    • Compare and contrast the contributions of distress, nutrition, physical activity, and the misuse and abuse of drugs to morbidity and mortality among specific groups, communities, and societies.
    • Compare and contrast the resources used to determine the health status of local, state, national, and international groups, communities, and populations.
    • Demonstrate knowledge of the core disciplines of public health and their relationship to the ecology of public health.
    • Describe behavioral and non-behavioral variables contributing to morbidity and mortality produced by chronic and communicable diseases and injuries.
    • Differentiate between the behavioral, biological, environmental, and health services contributions to health from a historical perspective.

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