Union’s Graduate Certificate in Health Education is designed to help you better serve the community as a health educator. We are one of the few universities in the country that incorporate online learning with what’s trending in the field. Learn at your own pace while staying current on the latest developments in the health industry.
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This course introduces the learner to concepts and models fundamental to Health Education and Health Promotion including: Healthy People 20/20, the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) process, historical/ theoretical/ philosophical foundations, roles, responsibilities, worksite settings, policy and programming challenges. Students will examine the determinants of health, wellness, and illness across the lifespan as well as environmental, sociocultural factors, health misinformation and quackery, e-patient and informatics, consumer protection and economic factors that influence health care practices.
This course studies the determinants influencing health behavior, health behavior theories and applied methodology. Future directions of the profession will be examined, exploration of policy and programming challenges and opportunities in strategic public health issues.
Provides requisite skills to conduct a community needs assessment, plan effective health promotion programs, advocacy and how to set SMART goals for evaluation for programs in various community and worksite settings.
Provides requisite skills to design (including methods and materials), promote, present (including communication skills), and implement health promotion programs consistent with specified program goals and objectives. Includes information on instrument development, data collection, basic data analysis, program monitoring, impact of assessment, measurement of efficiency, and report writing.
Students who wish to prepare for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credential exam have the option to complete up to 25 semester hours total in health education through Union. These hours are designed to meet the requirements needed to sit for the CHES exam. For more details on the CHES exam, please review the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC).
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