SDG Detail

HSYP8104 - Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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Project description

Health promotion creates supportive conditions for health, enabling people to have control over, and improve their health and wellbeing. Health promotion officers need to have a good understanding of health promotion approaches and behaviour change models in order to engage communities and enable people to address their health needs. In this unit you will develop an understanding of health promotion concepts, frameworks and theories used to formulate policy and develop programs tailored for a variety of settings. The unit is taught with an emphasis on the determinants of health and health inequities, including economic, social and environmental influences. The key skills you will develop include designing and evaluating evidence-based health promotion initiatives within a specific population/community. These skills will prepare you for a career in health promotion practice and research.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Explain health promotion concepts and principles in planning and practice 2. Analyse the range of factors that influence the health of individuals and populations, including social determinants of health and lifestyle behaviours 3. Identify and critically analyse the range of theoretical and practical intervention frameworks available for disease prevention and health promotion delivery within a specific population/community 4. Design and evaluate health promotion strategies to demonstrate effective application of key principles and theoretical models of health promotion