Home Search Index A-Z Contact Us Portal
News About Us Academics Student Life Library Research Athletics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Kinesiology
     
Prospective Students
Current Students
Alumni, Donors & Friends
Visitors
Faculty & Staff
Mark Your Calendar Wear Red Day Aug. 29
Home | Programs | Faculty & Staff | Facilities | Courses | News | Exits
 
Health Promotion & Wellness
 
The focus of health promotion and wellness deals is to understand how policy, environmental, institutional, and individual actions can improve the public's health. This work, usually done in partnership with organizations and communities, uses principles and methods from the social and behavioral sciences to promote health in diverse settings across Louisiana, the US and the globe.

An important motivation for our work is that, in many cases, scientists and practitioners have identified which actions should and can be taken to improve public health, but these actions are often either carried out ineffectively or at too small a scale. For example, at least half of the worldwide annual deaths of 11 million children under 5 years old can be prevented by proven actions, but we lack sufficient understanding of how to effectively mobilize sociopolitical processes, program design and implementation, and community partnerships to enact these actions. Behavioral and social research, training, and outreach aimed at acquiring, sharing, and applying knowledge about effective mobilization and coordination processes can therefore have large public health impacts.

Students who pursue the area of Health Promotion & Wellness may take course work leading to certification by National Commission For Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Health Promotion & Wellness has a broad area of occupations. Students will perform service learning hours from among the following: hospitals, schools, government agencies, colleges, and corporate businesses.
 
More Information:
 
 
 
For further information, contact
Susan Lyman (halo@louisiana.edu)
Curriculum Coordinator, Health Promotion & Wellness
Bourgeois Hall, Room 128-A
Phone 337/482-6465
 
 
College of Education | ULink | moodle | Prof Dev Schools | Intramurals
 

Document last revised Monday, April 28, 2008 11:07 AM

© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Kinesiology, PO Box 42210, Lafayette LA 70504-2210, USA
Location: Bourgeois Hall, Room 124-B · 225 Cajundome Blvd.
Telephone: 337/482-6615 · E-Mail: cxb4512@louisiana.edu