pepfar is the nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan.
pepfar is the nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan.
what is the nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan?
pepfar
in 1979, president carter appointed dr. green as first director of the office of health information, health promotion, physical fitness and sports medicine (now the office of disease prevention and health promotion). that office coordinated development of "healthy people: the surgeon general's report on health promotion and disease prevention" (1979) and the 1990 "objectives for the nation" (1981), which have served as the blueprint for the nation's public health policies to this day. his office also established the national health information clearinghouse, and a variety of national surveys, campaigns, and federal research and demonstration programs in disease prevention and health promotion.
lawrence w. green
health promotion in higher education









































in higher education, health promotion programs work to support student success by creating healthy learning environments. health promotion professionals practice prevention to expand protective factors and reduce personal and community health risk factors, utilizing a public health/population health model. health promotion services often coordinate primary prevention and secondary prevention on campus, operating as a functional area of college health or student affairs. sub-specialties include education on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, sexual health, nutrition, stress management, healthy lifestyles, chronic disease prevention and peer health education.









































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health promotion in higher education