module specification

Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 4: Promoting health and wellbeing builds on the foundation of Physiotherapy theory and practice 1 & 2, and compliments Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 3, in progressing the education pillar of clinical physiotherapy practice. 

This module will run in the second semester of year two of the course to provide students with opportunities to add to their clinical physiotherapy practice, a consideration of the role of lifestyle risk factors and wider health determinants on wellbeing of individuals. Furthermore, through the health promotions aspect of this module, students will be able to develop skills for their role in promoting health for different clinical populations.   

Specifically, in this module, you will:

Acquire the knowledge of the contributions of lifestyle factors and how social, economic and environmental factors can influence a person’s health and wellbeing.  

Develop understanding of the contributions physiotherapists can make to health promotion, health education and preventing ill-health. 

Acquire the knowledge about how to reduce health inequalities through their professional clinical practice.

The skills to facilitate discussions about health risks with their clients and undertake brief interventions including education on major lifestyle risk factors and behaviour change).

Acquire the knowledge about the importance of occupational health and immunisation requirements

Pre-requisite: All level 4 modules

Co-requisites: PT5000, PT5051, PT5053, PT5W51, PT5W52

Available for Study Abroad? NO

Knowledge 

Overview of the key elements of healthy living – nutrition, physical activity/exercise, sleep, lifestyle factors, environmental conditions (LO1)

Overview of determinants of health across the lifespan and concepts of health inequalities (LO2, LO3, LO4)

Introduction to health promotion: models, approaches including primary and secondary prevention and ethical issues.  (LO4,

Role of the Physiotherapist and health care professionals in health promotion; overview of recent policy initiatives – AHP into Action; Making Every Contact Count etc (LO4, LO5)

Overview of complexity in prevention strategies and the roles of different disciplines

Intervention strategies – NHS guidelines, exercise prescription for promoting health and wellbeing, behaviour change interventions, public health campaigns, etc. (LO5, LO5)

Barriers and facilitators to interventions (and how these vary across the lifespan and different contexts). (LO4, LO5)

Occupational health immunisation requirements

Skills 

Behaviour change approaches (LO4, LO5)

Making every contact count (LO4, LO5)

Motivational interviewing in routine clinical practice (LO4, LO5)

Promoting self-management in Physiotherapy practice (LO4, LO5)

Providing effective and targeted health education in routine Physiotherapy practice (LO4, LO5)

Coaching skills

Teaching approaches used in this module will include direct face to face teaching, flipped classroom sessions, blended learning with online resources and group work.

Students will work in groups to develop approaches to health promotions for different populations of service users, general population, and the University community. There will also be opportunities to develop poster designs abilities and other innovative approaches for delivering effective health promotion interventions.

Students will also have the opportunities (with extra-curricular activities and further learning) to earn a Level 1 coaching badge for promoting physical activities.

By the end of this module, students should:

Identify factors that contribute to physical health, mental health, and wellbeing in groups of people and individuals from diverse settings.

Evaluate local, national, and global health data to identify trends in population health that may be beneficial for providing healthcare.

Demonstrate an understanding of effective strategies for own physical and mental health to maintain fitness to practice.

Demonstrate understanding of how social, economic and environmental factors can influence a person’s health and well-being and health inequality.

Demonstrate an understanding of their roles as healthcare professionals and that of others in health promotions, health education, ill health prevention and reducing health inequalities.

Empower and enable individuals such as service users, colleagues, and members of the University community to play a part in managing their own health through promotion of physical activities and risk reduction behaviours.

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Core Reading 

Anastasia M. Snelling (2014). Introduction to Health Promotion, edited by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. 

Haber, David (2013). Health Promotion and Aging: Practical Applications for Health Professionals, Sixth Edition, Springer Publishing Company, 

Stephens, Christine. Health Promotion: A Psychosocial Approach. Maidenhead: Open: Mc Graw-Hill, 2008. Health Psychology. 

Websites 

1. Health promotion | The King's Fund 

2. Make Every contact Count