module specification

Provide students with an understanding of the principles of health promotion
Enable students engage with the design and delivery of health promotion initiatives
Provide students with and understanding of how health promotion initiatives and health outcomes are shaped by health policy
Enable students to explore health policy and health promotion in challenging settings
Enable students to  investigate a range of health promotion approaches  in a range of social, cultural and economic contexts

 - Health promotion: context and contemporary trends
- Health promotion models, theories and approaches
- Settings for health promotion
- Values and ethical issues in health promotion.
- Social marketing and communication in health promotion
- Evidence based health promotion and analysis of health promotion reviews and reports.
- Socioeconomic, geographical and cultural influences on the delivery of health promotion initiatives
- Planning health promoting interventions
- Evaluating health promotion interventions
- The policy context of health promotion
- Health policy formulation and implementation process
- Health policy and the rationing of healthcare
- Globalisation and health LO1-5

For Students' learning will be structured around the weekly contact time with the teaching team and will be complemented by the students' independent work based on the guidance supplied in lectures, group work, and interactive workshops. Enquiry based learning and problem based learning will be used to help students to comprehend theoretical concepts. Students will be required to engage continuously and constructively with the module. Every week, students will be required to read recommended chapters in textbooks, to access Weblearn, web sites or video materials containing relevant educational material and to participate weekly interactive workshops developing academic and multimodal communication skills.

 On completing the module students will be able to:

1. Discuss health promotion theories and apply the principles of health promotion to health challenges

2. Identify and use appropriate information and skills to promote the health of individuals and groups through the design and delivery of health promotion initiatives

3. Apply ethical principles to health promotion activities

4. Debate the role of socioeconomic and cultural influences in shaping health promotion initiatives in a range of settings

5. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches to financing, organising and delivering health care

 1. An individual 10 minute oral presentation, based on one example of a current or recent  health promotion campaign in the UK [LO 1 and 2]

2. A  critical analysis of the campaign presented in Assessment 1  [LO 1, 3, 4 and 5] 3,000 words

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Online Resources
Association of Public Health Observatories http://www.apho.org.uk/apho/

Department of Health – Health and Social Care Topics
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/fs/en
Derbyshire Children & Young People’s Health Promotion Programmes
http://www.dchs.nhs.uk/your_health_useful_info/cyph/cyph_health_promotion_planning_tools
Health Protection Agency http://www.hpa.org.uk/
Kings Fund http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
World Health Organisation http://www.who.int/en/