Health Science: Health Promotion BSc

at Mercy University Bronx Campus

The Bachelor of Science in Health Science, concentration in Health Promotion provides a comprehensive and innovative curriculum that prepares students for evidence-based practice in health promotion. Students take courses that focus on human biology, personal behavior, social and environmental determinants of health as well as the structure of and access to health care.

The World Health Organization defines Health Promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.”  Health educators and other health promotion practitioners seek to improve health by addressing the health knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and skills of individuals alongside environmental factors, social determinants of health, and inequities.