The University of the Incarnate Word Bachelor of Science in Community Health Education focuses on the provision of community health education through evidence-based approaches to address disease prevention and health promotion within communities. The mission of the Community Health Education program is to promote health in developing a better quality of life and building the whole person through the preparation of specialists in community health education. This mission includes promoting health, preventing disease, and advancing health equity, while training leaders for the delivery of teaching through communities, research, and service.
Students identify health-related issues that affect a community, collect needs assessments, analyze data, and create a plan to improve the quality of life with the aim of providing resources to decrease the gap in the health disparities.