The emphasis on living, playing, working and eating right to live a longer, healthier life has never been greater. Magazines devote full issues to healthy living, and television news shows frequently feature stories on the topic. Promoting a healthy lifestyle, which includes mental health, as well as physical, social and environmental health and safety, has become an essential profession, one that offers great growth potential and numerous opportunities.

A bachelor of science degree in health promotion from the University of North Texas will prepare you to help people develop healthy habits. Health promotion professionals use biology, epidemiology, marketing, kinesiology, psychology and sociology as foundations for planning and implementing health promotion programs.

As a professional in health promotion, you may work as a health educator in a secondary school or as an administrator of a community health care program or corporate health fitness program. UNT health promotion graduates work in many state and local health departments, hospital fitness programs, school districts and community health agencies.

The growing emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion has increased the need for public and community health professionals in leadership positions who are trained in the principles of health promotion.