Health promotion empowers and encourages people to increase control over their own health. It can cover a wide range of interventions to help protect and improve people's health and quality of life.
College is a milestone for many young adults where they begin making many of their own decisions. Marquette is dedicated to helping guide students to create habits that will enhance their health, wellbeing, and quality of life throughout their lifespan.
The Health Promotion, Prevention, and Advocacy Office uses the Socioecological Model to guide its work on campus. The Socioecological Model provides a theoretical framework to approach health behaviors. The framework proposes that health behaviors can be addressed at individual, interpersonal, community, and policy levels, and these levels exist within the context of an individual and the environment in which they live, work, and play. Addressing health behaviors at multiple levels is the most effective approach to support and encourage health behavior change.
The Health Promotion, Prevention, and Advocacy Office uses this approach when developing programming, intiatives, and events for campus. The office additionally uses an intersectional lens to ensure programming is inclusive to all students on campus.
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