HLT401 Contexts of Health Promotion (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Generic Science subjects (GENSC)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject will assist students to explore the fundamental philosophy and principles underpinning health promotion. Students will examine factors influencing health and health behaviour and identify strategies and methods for the implementation of health promotion activities. Health promotion initiatives at the international, national and local level will be examined and students will apply the principles that underpin health promotion to their practice.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
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| Distance | Wagga Wagga | Session 2 |
| Distance | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HLT401
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
Define health promotion;
Discuss the development of health promotion policy at the international, national and local levels;
Identify and describe health promotion models and approaches;
Discuss determinants of health;
Determine health promotion strategies appropriate to the needs of individuals, groups and communities;
Integrate the principles of health promotion in designing a health promotion program.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
Determinants of health and health behaviours of individuals and communities Health promotion theory Health promotion models and approaches Health promotion policy Ethics and values influencing individual, group and community health outcomes and policy Identify, critique and develop health promotion programmes and strategies Integration of health promotion in practice
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.