1. FYE 2009 Matt Sanders Health Promotion

2. Health Promotions Health Promotion Program Dr. Gibson Darden-Associate Dean/Director, Health, Kinesiology & Sport Studies

3. PROMOTING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES The School is currently home to four academic majors that serve approximately 800 undergraduate students. The school's mission is to provide students with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes for 21st century leadership in the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

5. It’s Not Just A Major, It’s A Life Style! A minimum level of personal fitness and physical activity is widely viewed as one of the best forms of health insurance. The Coastal Carolina University’s health program has access to the best available physical fitness assessments.

6. Award Winning Program! Coastal Carolina University's Health Promotion major is one of only 21 programs in the nation and the 1st in South Carolina that has been awarded the designation of SABPAC Program Approval.

7. Areas of Study Coastal’s Health Promotion program features three different areas of study so that students may personalize their studies based on career or graduate school aspirations: Health Promotion with General Cognate Health Promotion with a Communication Option Health Promotion with a Fitness Option

9. 250,000 workers are needed in public health by 2020 – which is three times the number of students who are projected to graduate from public health programs – to meet public health work needs.

10. Over the next eight years, it is estimated there will be: 26% increase in health education positions; 16% increase in medical and health management positions, and; 21% increase in health services.

11. Works Cited "Health Promotion." Coastal Carolina University. Web. 02 Nov. 2009. <http://www.coastal.edu/healthpromo/overview.html>.