Course Description
Provides students with strong preparation for their future
roles as leaders in nutrition and physical activity
intervention for health promotion and disease prevention.
Athena Title
Health Intervention
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to summarize the current research in physical activity and nutrition public health practice.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to interpret general systems theory as it relates to current issues in public health physical activity and nutrition.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply appropriate interventions for various community settings based on evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply concepts of intervention development, implementation, and evaluation to physical activity and nutrition programming in community settings.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to examine environmental and demographic disparities in the public health physical activity and nutrition evidence from ethical and scientific perspectives.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to critique public policy options and opportunities to promote nutrition and physical activity across cultures and sociodemographic groups.
Topical Outline
- Introduction to interventions: Systems Theory
- Health Behavior Theory as a guide for interventions
- Translating Science into practice: CDC Guide to Preventive Services, Dietary Guidance for Groups and Populations
- Program Development Process
- Review of Interventions: Family Based
- Review of Interventions: Faith Based
- Review of Interventions: School/School Related
- Review of Interventions: Worksite
- Review of Interventions: Environmental Approaches (grocery stores, restaurants, vending, planned/built environment)
- Adapting interventions to culturally diverse populations
- Public Policy as a Nutrition and Physical Activity Intervention
- Evaluating Interventions
- Ethical Considerations in Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions
