Personal Health of a University Students
- Education
- 300 level
- 3 credit units
- 280 pages
- 31 units
This course equips students with the knowledge, attitude, and skills necessary for maintaining personal health as university students. It covers essential topics such as personal hygiene, wellness dimensions, and lifestyle choices that promote health. Students will learn to analyze factors influencing their health behaviors, use communication skills to reduce health risks, and access valid health information. The course also emphasizes decision-making and goal-setting skills to enhance personal, family, and community health promotion.
About this course
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Study hours
- 156 hours
- Maths
- None
- Content
- Theoretical, practical
- Practical work
- Yes
- Self assessment exercises
- Assignments
- Continuous Assessments
- Final Examination
What you'll read
The real module and unit structure of HED319, taken from the course material NOUN publishes.
- MODULE 1: PERSONAL HEALTH EDUCATION: Unit 1INTRODUCTION
- UNIT 3 STATE THE TYPES OF PERSONAL HEALTH/HYGIENE
- UNIT 4 EXPLAIN PERSONAL HYGIENE PRACTICES
- UNIT 5 IDENTIFY RELEVANT TOOLS AND COUNSELING SKILLS IN SCREENING UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S HEALTH RISK BEHAVIOURS
- UNIT 6 DESCRIBE HEALTH PROMOTION AS A YARDSTICK FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
- UNIT 7 THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY, PEERS, CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY ON PERSONAL HEALTH BEHAVIOURS OF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
- UNIT 8 DESCRIBE THE FACTORS THAT PROMOTE PERSONAL HEALTH/ HYGIENE OF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
- UNIT 9 DESCRIBE PERSONAL HEALTH PROMOTION AS A YARDSTICK FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
- UNIT 10 DEMONSTRATES THE USE OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO ENHANCE PERSONAL HEALTH AND REDUCE HEALTH RISKS.
- UNIT 11 DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY TO USE DECISION-MAKING SKILLS TO ENHANCE PERSONAL HEALTH OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
- UNIT 13 EXPLAIN THE ELEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR PLANNING PERSONAL HEALTH/ HYGIENE PROMOTION
- UNIT 14 THE CRITERIA THAT ARE USED FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSONAL HEALTH/ HYGIENE APPLICATION
- MODULE 2 PERSONAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS OF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
- UNIT 2 CARE OF CLOTHING
- UNIT 3 CARE FOR THE SKIN
- UNIT 4 CARE OF THE HAIR
- UNIT 5 CARE OF THE EYES
- UNIT 6 CARE OF THE EARS
- UNIT 7 CARE OF THE HANDS/HAND HYGIENE
- UNIT 8 CARE OF THE FOOT
- UNIT 9 GOOD FOOD (BALANCE DIET)
- UNIT 10 EXERCISE
- UNIT 11 SLEEPS
- UNIT 12 RECREATION AND LEISURE SERVICES
- UNIT 13 POSTURES
- UNIT 14 RESTS AND RELAXATION
One paragraph, so you can see how it reads
HED319 · MODULE 3 lifestyle related health problems of a university student
The presentation schedule gives you the important dates for the completion of your computer based tests and participation at facilitation. Remember, you are to submit all your assignments at the appropriate time. You should guide against delays and plagiarisms in your work please.
What you should be able to do
- Define and explain key personal health terms.
- Apply principles of personal hygiene in daily life.
- Analyze factors influencing personal health behaviors.
- Utilize communication skills to enhance personal health.
- Demonstrate decision-making skills for health promotion.
- Advocate for personal, family, and community health.
- Explain lifestyle choices that promote personal health.
What it prepares you for
- Health Educator
- Wellness Coordinator
- Public Health Advocate
- Community Health Worker
- Health Promotion Specialist
- Healthcare
- Education
- Community Health
- Public Health
- Wellness Programs
Where it gets hard
The units students slow down on, and what makes each one heavy.
- Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 5: Identify relevant tools and Counseling skills in screening University Student's health risk behaviours
Requires understanding of various counseling techniques and their application in identifying and addressing health risk behaviors among university students.
- Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 7: Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on personal health behaviours of a university student
Involves analyzing complex interactions between family, peers, culture, media, and technology, and their impact on personal health choices.
- Module 3:
Unit 8: Describe Avoidance of Violence as Healthy Lifestyle of a University Student
Requires critical understanding of the various forms of violence and abuse and the ability to implement effective prevention strategies.
A suggested way through it
13 weeks, about 88 hours in total. Yours will differ.
- Week 1Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 1: Introduction to personal health terms used in the study course such as: Health, Health Education and personal health, · 3 hours
Define health, wellness, health education, and personal health.. Discuss the aims and objectives of personal health.. Explain the dimensions of wellness..
Unit 2: Explain the basic principles of personal hygiene · 3 hours
Explain the principles of personal health and hygiene.. Discuss the importance of hand washing, bathing, and oral hygiene.. Describe the significance of restful sleep and regular doctor visits..
- Week 2Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 3: State the types of personal hygiene · 3 hours
State the types of personal hygiene.. Explain the importance of dental, body, and hand hygiene.. Discuss menstrual and genital hygiene practices..
Unit 4: Explain Personal Hygiene Practices · 3 hours
Describe good personal hygiene practices.. Explain the health, social, and psychological reasons for maintaining good personal hygiene.. Discuss the benefits of cleanliness and grooming..
- Week 3Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 5: Identify relevant tools and Counseling skills in screening University Student's health risk behaviours · 4 hours
Explain relevant tools and counseling skills for screening health risk behaviors.. Discuss the impact of effective counseling techniques.. Identify methods for promoting academic success and collaboration..
Unit 6: Describe health promotion as a yardstick for disease prevention · 4 hours
Describe health promotion as a yardstick for disease prevention.. Explain primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.. Discuss the importance of nutrition, physical activity, and reducing tobacco use..
- Week 4Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 7: Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on personal health behaviours of a university student · 4 hours
Describe the influence of family, peers, culture, media, and technology on personal health behaviors.. Analyze positive and negative impacts of these factors.. Discuss the importance of social support and healthy relationships..
Unit 8: Describe the factors that promote personal health/ hygiene of a University Student · 4 hours
Describe the factors that promote personal health and hygiene.. Explain the importance of bathing, nail trimming, and oral care.. Discuss the side effects of poor personal hygiene..
- Week 5Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 9: Describe personal health promotion as a yardstick for disease prevention among University Students · 4 hours
Describe personal health promotion as a yardstick for disease prevention.. Explain the goal and aim of personal health promotion.. Discuss the levels and importance of health promotion..
Unit 10: Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance their personal health and avoid or reduce health risks. · 4 hours
Demonstrate the use of interpersonal communication skills to enhance personal health and reduce health risks.. Explain the characteristics of effective interpersonal communication.. Discuss the importance of active listening and empathy..
- Week 6Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 11: Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance their personal health. · 4 hours
Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance personal health.. Explain how decision-making skills improve health.. Discuss the importance of rational thinking and assessing options..
Unit 12: Demonstrate the ability to practice personal health-enhancing behaviours and avoid or reduce health risky behaviour. · 4 hours
Demonstrate the ability to practice personal health-enhancing behaviors.. Explain the importance of seat belt use, sleep, diet, and exercise.. Discuss the negative effects of poor personal hygiene..
- Week 7Module 1: Personal Health Education
Unit 13: Explain the elements and activities that are needed for planning personal health/ hygiene promotion · 4 hours
Explain the elements and activities needed for planning personal health and hygiene promotion.. Discuss the importance of bathing, nail trimming, and hand washing.. Describe the role of personal hygiene in preventing illnesses..
Unit 14: Describe the criteria that are used for evaluating the effectiveness of personal health/ hygiene application. · 4 hours
Describe the criteria used for evaluating the effectiveness of personal health and hygiene application.. Explain the importance of cleanliness of hair, body, and hands.. Discuss the role of hygiene education in behavior change..
- Week 8Module 2: Personal Health Requirements of a University student
Unit 1: Oral Hygiene · 3 hours
Explain the importance of oral hygiene.. State the items you need to perform mouth care.. Mention the procedure you will follow for effective oral hygiene..
Unit 2: Care for Clothing · 3 hours
Conceptualize clothes.. Mention the types of clothing.. Give reasons for wearing clothes..
- Week 9Module 2: Personal Health Requirements of a University student
Unit 3: Care for the skin · 3 hours
Describe skin.. State the components/structure of the skin.. Describe the functions of the skin..
Unit 4: Care for the Hair · 3 hours
Explain human hair.. Explain hair texture.. State the types of hair structure..
- Week 10Module 2: Personal Health Requirements of a University student
Unit 5: Care for the Eyes · 3 hours
Explain human eye.. Explain the structure of the human eye.. Describe the functions of the human eye..
Unit 6: Care for the Ears · 3 hours
Understand the science of hearing and how humans perceive sound.. Draw and label the structure of the human ear.. Mention the three portion of the human ear..
- Week 11Module 2: Personal Health Requirements of a University student
Unit 7: Care for the Hands · 3 hours
Conceptualize hand washing/hygiene.. Mention the time for washing hands.. Explain the reasons for hand washing..
Unit 8: care for the foot · 3 hours
Describe the importance of keeping the feet clean.. State the health problems of the feet.. Explain the importance of taking care of your feet..
- Week 12Module 2: Personal Health Requirements of a University student
Unit 9: Good Food · 3 hours
Define balance diet.. State the classes of food that form balance diet.. The functions of each class of food to the body..
Unit 10: Exercise · 3 hours
Define exercise.. Describe brief history of exercise.. State the types of exercise require of a university student..
- Week 13Module 2: Personal Health Requirements of a University student
Unit 11: Sleep · 3 hours
Conceptualize sleep.. Explain good sleep.. State the importance of sleep..
Unit 12: Recreation · 3 hours
Explain the word "recreation".. State the functions benefits of recreation to the university students.. Describe the duties of a club recreation leader..
Preparing for the exam
- Create a study schedule and allocate specific time slots for each unit.
- Focus on understanding key definitions and concepts from Module 1.
- Practice applying decision-making skills to real-life health scenarios.
- Review the factors influencing health behaviors and develop strategies for positive change.
- Summarize the main points of each unit and create flashcards for quick review.
- Form study groups to discuss and clarify challenging concepts.
- Practice answering sample questions and past exam papers.
- Prioritize units based on their weightage in the assessment.
- Ensure adequate rest and manage stress during the exam preparation period.
- Focus on understanding the practical applications of personal hygiene and wellness principles.
- Create concept maps linking Units 3-5 factors influencing health behaviors.
- Review all TMAs and assignments, focusing on areas where you struggled.
- Practice interpersonal communication scenarios to enhance your skills in health advocacy.
- Develop a personal health plan incorporating the principles learned in the course.
- Review the different types of violence and abuse and their prevention strategies from Unit 8.
- Create mnemonics to remember key concepts and definitions.
- Use online resources and videos to supplement your understanding of complex topics.
- Seek clarification from your tutor or course facilitator on any doubts or difficulties.
- Take regular breaks during study sessions to maintain focus and prevent burnout.
- Stay positive and motivated throughout the exam preparation process.
- Ensure you have a good understanding of the different types of depression and their management strategies from Unit 12.
- Practice mindfulness and stress-reduction techniques to manage exam-related anxiety.
- Review the recommended study schedule and adjust it based on your individual learning pace.
- Focus on understanding the practical applications of personal hygiene and wellness principles.
- Create concept maps linking Units 3-5 factors influencing health behaviors.
- Review all TMAs and assignments, focusing on areas where you struggled.
- Practice interpersonal communication scenarios to enhance your skills in health advocacy.
- Develop a personal health plan incorporating the principles learned in the course.
- Review the different types of violence and abuse and their prevention strategies from Unit 8.
- Create mnemonics to remember key concepts and definitions.
- Use online resources and videos to supplement your understanding of complex topics.
- Seek clarification from your tutor or course facilitator on any doubts or difficulties.
- Take regular breaks during study sessions to maintain focus and prevent burnout.
- Stay positive and motivated throughout the exam preparation process.
- Ensure you have a good understanding of the different types of depression and their management strategies from Unit 12.
- Practice mindfulness and stress-reduction techniques to manage exam-related anxiety.
- Review the recommended study schedule and adjust it based on your individual learning pace.
Questions students ask about this course
What is HED319 about?
This course equips students with the knowledge, attitude, and skills necessary for maintaining personal health as university students. It covers essential topics such as personal hygiene, wellness dimensions, and lifestyle choices that promote health. Students will learn to analyze factors influencing their health behaviors, use communication skills to reduce health risks, and access valid health information. The course also emphasizes decision-making and goal-setting skills to enhance personal, family, and community health promotion.
How many units does HED319 have?
HED319, Personal Health of a University Students, has 31 units across 3 modules, over 280 pages of course material. You can read it one unit at a time.
How many credit units is HED319?
HED319 carries 3 credit units, at 300 level in Education.
Is HED319 hard?
HED319 is rated intermediate level, with no mathematical content. It is mostly theoretical and practical work, and it has a practical component.
How long does HED319 take to study?
About 156 hours of study, spread across its 31 units.
How is HED319 assessed?
HED319 is assessed by Self assessment exercises, Assignments, Continuous Assessments and Final Examination.
What can I do with HED319?
Health Educator, Wellness Coordinator, Public Health Advocate, Community Health Worker and Health Promotion Specialist.