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PUBH5033: Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

This core unit of study introduces students to evidence-based health promotion as a fundamental approach to promoting and improving health and wellbeing, preventing disease and reducing health inequalities in populations. The unit is divided into three modules: (i) the building blocks of disease prevention and health promotion, (ii) using evidence to develop disease prevention and health promotion interventions, and (iii) evaluating disease prevention and health promotion programs to inform policy and practice. This unit will give students an understanding of disease prevention and health promotion and their relationship to public health, introduce design, implementation, and evaluation of disease prevention and health promotion interventions, and develop and refine students' research, critical appraisal, and communication skills.

Code PUBH5033
Academic unit Public Health
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. identify and define fundamental disease prevention and health promotion concepts
  • LO2. synthesise and critique existing disease prevention and health promotion evidence
  • LO3. identify and define fundamental evaluation concepts
  • LO4. critique the design, implementation, and evaluation of disease prevention and health promotion interventions
  • LO5. apply evidence, values and principles, ethics, theories, and frameworks to the design and evaluation of a public health action (intervention), to prevent ill-health or promote health
  • LO6. conduct effective literature searching strategies.