Engaging Young Adults in Proactive Health Behaviors: A Goal-Setting Process
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The Human Health Program at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, is an undergraduate curriculum that focuses on health in its broadest context, exploring novel strategies that educate, engage, empower, and encourage college students to develop and sustain healthy lifestyle behaviors. In the program, students take part in a onesemester experience that is a blend of academic health education and wellness coaching, where the group class supports a self-directed health goal process.
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