Table 1
UCU Health and Wholeness Course Overview
| Subject | Key Message |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Health is more than the absence of disease: it is a state of physical, social, emotional/mental, and spiritual wellbeing. |
| Components of Health | Understanding physical, social, emotional, and spiritual components helps make wholeness more clear. |
| Nutrition | We need macronutrients and micronutrients each day to remain healthy, but we often eat the wrong balance of food. |
| Hygiene | We transmit germs and disease by when our bodies and hands are not clean, and also by improper handling and food storage. |
| Sanitation, Water, Land Use | Families and communities must protect sanitation and water sources and not destroy the land they need to live on. |
| Common Occurring Problems | Bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections cause diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and malaria: knowing their signs and treatments can save lives. |
| HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections | HIV is not the only disease transmitted through sexual contact; early identification of the symptoms can save men and women from serious complications. |
| Sexuality | Sex is God’s gift to a married couple. Breaking that gift has consequences in life and relationships. |
| First Aid/Early Intervention | Correctly identifying a problem and providing assistance or seeking help can keep a bad situation from becoming worse. |
| Family Health | Mothers and children die around child birth or when children are young; family planning, safe delivery, and other preventive measures save lives. |
| Dependence | Sometimes we lose control over some activity we enjoy or some substance we take in, and it controls us. Breaking such habits is very hard. |
| Fitness and Life Skills | We need endurance, strength, and flexibility in all aspects of lives: physical, social, emotional, and spiritual; we should know and apply healthy life skills. |
| Leadership for a Healthy Society | Social health is influenced by our attitudes and beliefs; some social problems compromise everybody’s health. |