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B.S.N.
Second Career
RN Studies
Master's and Post-master's
Programs
Ph.D. Program
Postdoctoral Fellowships
International Programming
Faculty Profile
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Academic Programs
Ph.D. Program
Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
Health promotion/risk reduction scholarship refers to: (1) understanding
factors that influence at-risk or health promoting behaviors throughout the
lifespan, (2) identifying interactions among behavioral, biophysical, genetic,
cultural and socio-economic processes that influence at-risk and health-promoting
behavior and related health outcomes, and (3) designing and testing of intervention
to bring about changes in individual and aggregate health-related behavior.
Specifically, the objectives of this focus are to:
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Critically analyze empirical support for existing theories relevant to
health promotion and risk reduction.
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Develop new theoretical constructs and determine their usefulness
in predicting health-promoting and risk-reducing behaviors
of individuals , families and community-based aggregates.
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Demonstrate competence in behavioral and biological measurement
of health actions and health status parameters.
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Demonstrate competence in designing multi-disciplinary
studies to test the efficacy of intervention
to improve health in socioeconomically
and racially diverse populations.
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Demonstrate
expertise
in research design,
data
collection and analytic
techniques
appropriate
to
the study of health behaviors
and
related health
outcomes.
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Report
research findings
in nursing
and multi-disciplinary
publications in
a critical
and scientifically
sound manner.
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Identify
implications of
health promotion
and risk
reduction research
for informing
health policy.
For information on the research of faculty members see the homepage of the
following individuals: Violet Barkauskas, Carol
Boyd, Patricia Coleman-Burns,
Bonnie
Hagerty, Carol
Loveland-Cherry, Kristy Martyn, Penny
Pierce, Joanne Pohl, Anne
Thomas, Antonia Villarruel |