Overview

As a health educator or public health professional, your focus will be to develop educational campaigns and strategies that promote healthy habits and healthy environments for people in families, schools, and communities.

In the Public Health Education program at Bellevue University, you will have opportunities to:

• Explore trends and practices in the health behaviors of individuals and communities

• Examine how people in various populations access the health information and services they need

• Gain strategies for health education program planning, promotion, and administration

• Practice skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, and the communication of public health program messages

Program Outcomes

At the completion of the Bachelor's in Public Health Education, graduates will be prepared to:

• Analyze best practices to assess needs, resources and capacity for health education/promotion in a variety of settings.

• Develop a plan for health education/promotion that uses problem-solving to develop innovative strategies and interventions for priority populations, partners.

• Demonstrate the ability to implement and monitor a health education plan that incorporates ethical, legal, and professional standards while supporting principles of diversity and cultural competence.

• Develop a systematic evaluation plan that incorporates available technology and research methods to draw conclusions and to disseminate findings to stakeholders.

• Demonstrate leadership principles that facilitate strategic and fiscal resources that engender respectful relationships and collaboration in order to administer a health education program.

• Research, judge, and select appropriate health information and resource materials to promote health literacy.

• Integrate inter- and intra-personal messages that deploy communication capabilities to promote advocacy and systems change in health education programs.

• Know yourself, how you impact others, and how others impact you to effectively plan health education programs for individuals, schools, communities, and stakeholders.