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The ability to describe preventable causes of death and disease, document health disparities, and identify psychosocial determinants of health behavior is ultimately of value only if such knowledge leads to changes in behavior, policy, and underlying social conditions.

For students interested in pursuing careers in intervention development and program planning, the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education offers a broad range of courses and practical experience that provide state-of-the-art skills for developing, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions.

Courses provide a strong theoretical and applied foundation for intervening at national and international levels of change, i.e., community, family, individual; across diverse populations, i.e., women, elders, ethnic minorities; from a variety of perspectives, i.e., Motivational Interviewing, patient education, community-participatory models, and health communication. Students learn, critique, and synthesize prior intervention studies and are encouraged to integrate theory and methods taught in core courses in the design and evaluation of interventions that match their interests and professional goals.

Some career paths include clinical health educator positions, intervention development for both research and service agencies, health voluntary agencies (e.g., ACS and ADA), government agencies that delivery health promotion interventions (e.g., CDC, NIH), and managed care disease management/health promotion programs.

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