Health Promotion

The health promotion bachelor's degree program at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan allows you to develop the skills and tools needed to ensure everyone has the skills and tools they need to be healthy.

In the Bachelor of Kinesiology in Health Promotion program, you will gain a foundation in movement science and a background in the determinants of health, equity, diversity and inclusion, wellness, evaluation, and program delivery. You'll learn how programs and policies, like housing, access to healthy food, and mental health supports, can affect health. In addition, you will learn how to assess, develop and implement programs that are designed to achieve specific health results.

Health promotion can be applied in all areas of society, including workplaces, schools, health care facilities, your personal life, and the community. This field is growing as workplaces and organizations recognize the importance of promoting health and wellbeing among their employees and members.

The health promotion bachelor's degree program at the U of R will prepare you for a health career that has a positive impact on our world. Get career-ready with a 15-week, full-time fieldwork experience, applying what you learned from studying your major. This level of experience prior to degree completion is not common in other undergraduate kinesiology programs.

Kinesiology and Health Studies provides multiple pathways to multiple destinations. Come and find the pathway that's right for you.

What Is Health Promotion?

Health promotion helps people to have more control over their health. Health promotion focuses on ways to ensure people have the tools and supports they need to make sure that their health and wellbeing is a priority in the places they live, work, and play. Health promotion focuses on prevention, including a wide range of social and environmental interventions that can reduce the health risks of individuals and communities.

Health promotion also focuses on achieving equity in health. The goal is to reduce differences in current health status and to have equal opportunities and resources so all people can achieve their fullest health potential.

Some unique courses in the University of Regina's health promotion bachelor's degree program include the following:

• Advanced Health and Wellness Promotion is an in-depth examination of health and wellness in the context of health and health-care trends. The course also examines the development of evidence-based health programs from needs assessment and program plan/implementation to evaluation.
• Program Delivery and Management looks at the planning process and various program applications in sport, recreation, and physical activity delivery systems.
• Indigenous Health Studies focuses on health science emphasizing Indigenous perspectives. Topics include health and health care history, health theory, personal health, consumerism, interpreting health information and statistics, and health careers.
• Indigenous Health and Sport in Historical Perspective introduces students to current challenges facing Indigenous people in North America using sport and health as its central themes. The course surveys topics from prehistory to current events. Another focus is student participation in Indigenous cultural events.