The field of community health and health promotion examines critical health issues through such factors as demography, epidemiology, culture and behavior.
Professionals in community health and health promotion work to advance the concept of healthy people in a variety of organizations: state and local health departments, centers for disease control, departments of health and human services, bureaus of health promotion and education, offices of minority health affairs, offices of international health, crisis centers, hospitals, schools and group homes. They also may be employed as health educators in settings such as corporate wellness programs, fitness centers, and hospitals.
The concentration in community health and health promotion gives you a thorough knowledge of current health issues and trains you to implement, analyze, and assess programs to deal with these issues.
Program graduates are employed nationwide in every facet of health administration: hospital, nursing home, mental health facilities, insurance, managed care, health maintenance organizations, public health and government agencies, institutions involved in health planning, promotion, education, specialized businesses such as health and fitness facilities.
Admission
Admission requirements to the Community Health Services program is the same as those established for admission to Ohio University in general. No special prerequisites need to be met prior to declaring a major. The major can be designated on the application when applying for admission to Ohio University, or current Ohio University students can request to enter the major by contacting the College of Health Sciences and Professions Office of Student Services.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
Along with federal and state aid programs such as Pell Grants, College Work Study, Perkins loans, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants, and Stafford Student Loans, Ohio University awards academic scholarship to incoming freshmen and upperclass students each year on a competitive basis. For more information, contact the OU Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships.
Curriculum
Core courses:
HLTH 202 Intro to Health and Lifestyle Choices
HLTH 203 Foundations of Health
HLTH 204 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
HLTH 205 Preventing HIV and STIs
HLTH 210 Heath of Women
or HLTH 212 Controlling Stress and Tension
HLTH 215 Violence in America
HLTH 217 Intro to Health Care Organizations
HLTH 230 Medical Terminology
HLTH 270 Consumer and Family Health
HLTH 290 Health Aspects of Aging
or HCCF 380 Death and Dying
HLTH 300 Worksite Health
HLTH 320 Strategies for Communicating Health Information
HLTH 345 School Health
HLTH 412 International Health Programming
HLTH 464 Community Health Services Practicum
HLTH 489 Program Planning
Health science core:
BIOS 170, 171 Intro to Zoology
BIOS 225 Genetics in Human Society
BIOS 300 Anatomy and Histology
BIOS 345 Human Physiology
EH 260 Intro to Environmental Health and Safety
EH 275 Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations
HLTH 330 Epidemiology
PSY 221 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
CS 120 Computer Literacy
Required related courses:
ANTH 101 Intro to Cultural Anthropology
or INST 103 Modern Asia
or INST 113 Modern Africa
or INST 121 Interdisciplinary Survey of Latin America
CHEM 101 Chemistry Applied to Today's World
or CHEM 121 Principles of Chemistry I
or CHEM 151 Fundamentals of Chemistry I
ENG 305J Technical Writing
or HLTH 370J Writing for the Health Sciences
HCFN 128 Intro to Nutrition
INCO 101 Fundamental of Human Communication
MATH 113 Algebra
or MATH 163A Intro to Calculus
or MATH 263A Calculus
MGT 202 Management
BIOS 221 Basic Microbiology
PSY 101 General PSYchology
SOC 101 Intro to Sociology
Program statistics
Number of students in the program: 52 (undergraduate)
Student / Teacher ratio: 36/1
Contact the program
Dr. Tania Basta
740.593.4681