Enhance your quality of life and support others in doing the same with our Health and Wellbeing Online Course. This course takes a holistic approach to health, exploring the physical, mental, emotional, and social factors that contribute to overall wellbeing. Ideal for personal development or professional growth, you’ll gain practical knowledge in lifestyle habits, stress management, relationships, and nutrition. Whether you’re looking to create a healthier lifestyle for yourself or help others do the same, this flexible online course offers the tools to build resilience, balance, and long-term vitality.
This comprehensive starting course develops an understanding of the nature and scope of human health and well-being, and of the health and fitness industry looking at topic such as nutrition, lifestyle, preventative health, and alternative medicine.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Industry Overview
- Scope of the health and fitness industries
- Defining fitness
- Resources and networking
- Aerobic fitness
- Modern Lifestyle Problems
- Health risks and physical activity
- Hazardous substances
- Cancer
- Food allergies
- Health care strategy for an aging population
- Wellbeing of special demographic groups: pregnant women, children, obese people, people with disabilities etc
- Human Nutrition
- Overview
- Nutrition basics
- Carbohydrates, proteins, fats
- Dietary fibre, vitamins, minerals
- Balanced diet
- The food pyramid
- Principles of weight loss
- Dietary protein intake and physical activity
- Food combining
- Healthy Eating
- Nutrition and diet problems
- Anorexia
- Obesity
- Nutritive value with cooking and processing
- Meat
- Fish
- Milk
- Plant foods
- Processing food
- Canning and pasteurisation
- Freezing, drying, etc
- Stress Management
- Body changes caused by stress
- Muscle response
- Gastrointestinal response
- Cardiovascular response
- Stress management program
- Easy living
- Stress cures
- Drugs and alcohol
- Relaxation
- Preventative Health
- Responsibility for your own health
- Self esteem
- Managing your own career
- Decision making
- Emotional security
- Problem solving
- Personal style inventory
- Motivations and barriers for exercise
- Alternative Medicine
- Overview
- Herbal medicines
- Aromatherapy
- Complimentary therapies
- Accupressure
- Pain points; trigger points
- Acupuncture
- Homeopathy
- Osteopathy
- Chiropractic
- Physiotherapy
- Counselling and psychological therapies
- Relaxation therapies
- Other therapies
- Basic First Aid
- Overview
- Soft tissue injuries
- Wounds
- Shock and fainting
- Fractures
- Strains, sprains and dislocations
- Heat and cold
- Resuscitation
- Drowning
- Eye injuries
- Spinal injuries
- Health promotion at work
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.