514-321 Health Promotion

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This subject builds upon the knowledge developed in Health and Human Behaviour, Contemporary Health Care and Health, Nursing and Society. The students will explore in depth the culturally and historically constructed understandings of health and illness in western societies. This will lead into an examination of the New Public Health movement, incorporating the principles of primary health care and health promotion. New Public Health is based on the belief that the participation of communities in activities to promote health is essential. It stresses the importance of environmental factors and challenges views of health that hold that individuals are responsible for their health. This subject introduces the student to health education within the context of health promotion and critiques of current medical, behavioural and socioeconomic approaches to health promotion.

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

• demonstrate a beginning understanding of the cultural and historical bases to approaches to health and illness in western society;

• demonstrate an understanding of the principles of the New Public Health movement;

• demonstrate an understanding of health education within the context of health promotion;

• seek, retrieve and evaluate information relating to health promotion;

• critically analyse a variety of health promotional strategies used locally, nationally and internationally.

At the completion of this subject students will be able to demonstrate:

• skills in information seeking, retrieval and evaluation;

• critical thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills;

• communication of knowledge using written and oral presentation methods;

• intercultural sensitivity;

• an openness to new ideas

1) One 750-word assignment plan - 20%

2) One 3000-word assignment - 80%

Students must achieve an aggregate score of 50% and pass the 3,000-word assignment to achieve a pass in the subject.

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• Stedman, Stedman's medical dictionary for the health professions and nursing. Australian and New Zealand edition (5th ed) (2005). Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
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  Anderson DM (2002), Mosby's nursing and allied health dictionary (6th ed). St Louis: Mosby.