Contemporary Health Issues

1. Health and wellness
    1.1   Historical and contemporary definitions of health
    1.2   Dimensions of wellness
    1.3   The social determinants of health
   

2. Behaviour change
    2.1   Models and theories of behaviour change
    2.2   Personal responsibility for prevention
    2.3   Roles of attitude, social influences, and self-efficacy
   

3. The Canadian Healthcare System
    3.1   The background of universal medicine in Canada
    3.2   Role of Canadian health professionals
    3.3   Health literacy
   

4. Psychosocial health
    4.1   Psychosocial health and its components
    4.2   External and internal factors that influence psychosocial health
    4.3   Roles of Mental health professionals
   

5. Coping with stress
    5.1   Stress, stressors, and stress reaction
    5.2   General Adaptation Syndrome
    5.3   Techniques for managing stress
   

6. Personal fitness
    6.1   Components of health-related fitness
    6.2   Basic exercise prescription
   

7. Lifespan physical activity
    7.1   Physical activity, exercise, and sedentary behaviour
    7.2   Benefits of physical activity and the risks of inactivity
    7.3   Recommendations for physical activity promoted in Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for Healthy Active Living
   

8. Nutrition
    8.1   Nutrition basics
    8.2   Define malnutrition
    8.3   Food insecurity and the impact on health
   

9. Weight management
    9.1   Energy balance
    9.2   Risk factors for obesity
   

10. Understanding addictions
    10.1  Addiction
    10.2  The addictive process
    10.3  Treatments and recovery for addiction
   

11. Drugs and alcohol
    11.1  Drug use, misuse, and abuse
    11.2  Canada's Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines
    11.3  Canada’s Cannabis: Low-risk Use Guidelines
   

12. Chronic diseases
    12.1  Heart disease and the risk factors
    12.2  Symptoms, causes, and risk factors for type 2 diabetes
    12.3  The importance of lifestyle choices in preventing heart disease and type 2 diabetes
   

13. Cancer
    13.1  The cancer process
    13.2  Cancer risk myths
    13.3  The role of infectious disease
   

14. Infectious conditions
    14.1  Epidemiology
    14.2  Types of infectious diseases
   

15. Indigenous Peoples and health
    15.1  Issues in epidemiology, interdisciplinary approaches, community, and Indigenous knowledge
   

16. Health and the environment
    16.1  The relationship between environment and health
   

17. Healthy aging
    17.1  The biological and psychosocial theories of aging
    17.2  Physiological and psychological changes that occur as a result of the aging process
   

18. Health consumerism
    18.1  Methods for making informed health-care choices
    18.2  Critically evaluating online sources of health information