HS 2250A/B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Health Promotion, Canada, Tobacco Smoking

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Lecture 1 note overview and introduction to health promotion. Welcome to health sciences 2250a: health promotion (in canada) Better control of behavioural risk factors alone could prevent between 40-70% of all premature deaths, one-third of all acute disabilities, and two-thirds of chronic disabilities . Introductions: welcome to health sciences 2250, course outline info & tid-bits , discussion of assumptions", focus of this course. Introduction to health promotion: there are 3 ta"s, most of them have taken the course before so they"re very helpful, you can contact any ta, you are not assigned to a specific ta in this course. Getting help: student services has helpful seminars regarding studying and learning, read the document on owl about how to do well in the course. Course outline: review the outline in detail as it serves as a contract. Resources: the exam will be based on the 7th edition of the textbook, the textbook is very dry, but it is really good.