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What is Lifetime Health and Wellness Courses

Chapter 53
Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society
Courses designed to promote lifelong well-being through physical activity and topics like behavior change, stress management, nutrition, physical activity program planning, and how to become an informed consume.
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Online Well-Being Focused Curriculums: A New Approach to Teaching and Learning for K-20 Health Education
Michelle Lee D'Abundo (Seton Hall University, USA), Stephen L. Firsing III (Coastal Carolina University, USA), and Cara Lynn Sidman (University of North Carolina – Wilmington, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6046-5.ch053
Abstract
Education and health are among the most salient issues facing Americans today. The field of public health has moved away from a physical health medical model to a more well-being focused quality-of-life perspective. K-20 curriculums in the United States need to reflect this ideological shift. In this chapter, content-focused curriculums with process-focused health behavior change-oriented learning are proposed as a strategy to promote well-being. Other issues that need to be addressed in the current education system are that the delivery of health-related curriculums is often inconsistent and taught by untrained personnel. Well-being-focused curriculums delivered online can provide consistency to improve the quality of health courses. This innovative approach has the potential to improve educational and health outcomes for K-20 curriculums while addressing public health issues by promoting well-being and quality-of-life for children and adults throughout the United States.
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