Course description
Public Health and Health Promotion Intervention
This module aims to enable you to:
- Develop your understanding of the concept of public health and health promotion within the context of contemporary health policy and the underlying political agenda.
- Explore and evaluate approaches to assessing public health and the underpinning information systems and data bases.
- Gain and exercise higher levels of judgement, decision making and discretion in public health and health promotion practice.
- Gain confidence and competence in using a variety of approaches to promote healthy lifestyles with individuals, groups and communities.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 6
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, youwill be able to:
- Systematically examine the concept of public health and health promotion in terms of the underlying political agenda.
- Identify and evaluate assessment tools for public health practice.
- Assess and evaluate the data and resources needed for effective practice in public health at local and national level and informing commissioning.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationship of public health and health promotion with other relevant disciplines.
- Articulate the need for initiative in decision-making, collaborative working and the influence of legal and ethical issues on practice.
- Identify and explore the wider determinants of health and critically evaluate the role of advocacy, empowerment and communication in effective public health practice.
- Demonstrate competence in a range of facilitation skills and implement them to deliver evidence based information which can be used to empower clients to make an informed choice.
- Debate the principles of social marketing and examine its use as strategy to target messages to specific groups and ensure resources are used efficiently.
Training Course Content
Indicative modulecontent includes:
- The structure and nature of public health within the social and political context.
- Processes of health surveillance and assessment of a population’s health and well-being.
- Resources needed to implement public health initiatives and support public health practice at local, national and international levels.
- Causation and critical evaluation of selected therapeutic and preventative interventions.
- Theories and concepts underpinning public health practice.
- Collaborative working with individuals, groups and communities to enhance health and well-being.
- Exploration of the wider determinants of health and the use of advocacy to promote client perspective in the assessment process.
- Appraising the quality of communication with individuals, groups and communities in assessment processes.
- Identifying, collating, analysing and critically interpreting data relating to health and well-being of an identified population and using this to make recommendations for service development.
- The bio-psychosocial aspects of group and community assessment.
- Contemporary issues in public health or social care.
- Health promotion models and approaches underpinning health promotion work.
- Social marketing.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Student presentations
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Workshops
- Discussions
- Case studies
- E-learning
- Seminars from expert speakers.
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