OCTH 733 - PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND PREVENTION OF DISABILITY

3 to 4 cr hrs

Description This is a variable credit course designed for graduate students in occupational therapy and public health. Public health students enroll for three credits; occupational therapy students enroll for four credits. This course focuses on the role of occupation and lifestyle in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease and disability for the individual, family and society. Models of health promotion, wellness, and health education will be presented, analyzed, and applied in relation to the self, to society, and to the professions of public health and occupational therapy. Through the additional credit, occupational therapy students will address work and other productive activities in relationship to quality of life and well-being and to utilize therapeutic exercise, ergonomics, work hardening/conditioning, vocational assessment and therapeutic activities to restore or remediate functional impairments.

Prerequisites and Corequisites
Prerequisites: ANAT 711 Human Gross Anatomy, ANAT 731 Human Neuroanatomy, PHGY 730 Human Physiology.

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