Exercise and Health Science

About this course

Exercise and health science is a discipline concerned with how physical activity, sport, and nutrition affect human health, wellbeing, and performance across the life course. It combines the physiological science of how the body responds and adapts to exercise with the nutritional, psychological, and epidemiological dimensions of health, and it applies that understanding to the prevention and treatment of disease and the enhancement of quality of life. As the relationship between physical inactivity and chronic disease has become clearer, the knowledge that exercise and health scientists develop has moved from the sports environment into mainstream healthcare and public health. The four-year full-time Exercise and Health Science programme at the University of Aberdeen examines the role of sport and exercise as a means of improving quality of life, exploring how physical activity, sport,

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 15 / 100Welfare and housing associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 10 / 100Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 10 / 100Health associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 8 / 100Therapy professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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