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Title: Health Promotion HE 3514 and HE4509: Introduction

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Health Promotion HE 3514 and HE4509 Introduction

Steve Brindle

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Intended learning outcomes for this session

Introduce you to the course aims and topics that
will be covered during the semester.
Tips and traps for success (or otherwise)!
Outline the nature of the course assessments,
expectations about criteria used for assessment
and the support available to you to optimise the
learning experience during this course
Review notions of health and illness, and models
of health determinants.

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Course Aims

Theoretical basis for, and current practice of
health promotion in the UK.
Various approaches, (UK overseas) to improve
the health of individuals, communities and larger
populations.
Debates about evidence evaluation.
Raise awareness about a range of UK- based health
promotion policies and programmes.

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Topics

A review of concepts of health and health
determinants.
The nature, principles and values of health
promotion.
Theories of behaviour change.
Theories of community change - including
community development.
Population based approaches to health promotion
settings for health promotion.
Politics and healthy public policy smoking
legislation.
Planning health promotion programmes.

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Topics

Social marketing, health and the media.
Evaluating health promotion.
International health promotion.
Inequalities.
Current debates about obesity as a public health
issue, determinants and current thinking about
actions (existing and proposed) to deal with this
perceived problem - prevention and treatment.

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Three Assessments

1. Continuous Assessment accounts for 50 of
overall mark
A. Individual Essay - worth 25 of overall
grade
Due Noon on Friday, 22nd February 2008
B. Health Promotion Programme Plan - worth 25
of overall grade
Due Noon on Friday, 2nd May 2008
2. Exam accounts for 50 of total course grade
Final grade Based on a possible CAS score of 20

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A. Essay

Requirements
1,500 word essay Based on PUBLISHED
LITERATURE!!! i.e. refereed journal article and
academic sources.
Pick one topic from A or B.

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Essay Topic 1

In March 2006, the Scottish Executive
introduced the Smoking, Health and Social Care
(Scotland) Bill 2006 which banned smoking in all
public places in Scotland.
Why was this bill introduced, and, what does the
literature suggest are the possible benefits,
costs and consequences to Scottish society of
this legislation?
Please consider wider medical, social, cultural,
economic arguments.

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Essay Topic 2

Within current health promotion policy, the
Scottish Executive has stated (as an ideal) that
every adult accumulates 30 minutes of
moderate physical activity (the equivalent of
brisk walking) most days per week. 1. Scottish
Executive (2003) Improving Health in Scotland
The Challenge. Edinburgh.
1.Outline current levels of physical activity in
the Scottish population, highlighting any
variations between population sub groups.
2.Discuss factors that may prevent or support the
individual groups that you identify in 1., in
achieving this goal.

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B. Health Promotion Programme Plan

Using existing evidence, prepare and submit a
written report (2,500 words) that
1. Outlines possible factors that evidence
indicates is responsible for the problem, i.e.
behavioural, biological social, economic,
environmental etc.
2. Identifies and suggests possible range of
interventions that have been/could be used to
address the problem.
3. Identify the key stakeholders (individuals and
agencies) that need to take part in and/or be
consulted to enable the suggested interventions
to be implemented.

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B. Health Promotion Programme Plan (cont)

4.Outlines proposed timescales for the
implementation of your chosen intervention(s),
providing a justification for them.
5.Suggests possible measures of success that you
would use to determine the effectiveness of your
intervention(s), i.e. how would you know if you
have made a difference, what would changes would
you look for, and when would you expect to see
those changes.
6.Finishes with a reflective assessment of the
strengths and weaknesses and/or potential threats
to your proposed programme plan.

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NB. There are different sets of requirements for
3rd and 4th year students

Health Science and any 3rd year students will
complete the first five elements as a group
exercise, but will complete the 6th element
individually to be submitted with their groups
programme plan.
Elements 1-5 - 75 of assignment marks
Element 6 - 25
Sports Studies students must submit individual
programme plans.

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Health Science Students Recording
decision-making and respective contributions

Record of decision-making processes - common
practice within and outside academia.
Common public and commercial sector practice -
public/share holder accountability.
Public health governance.

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Health Science Students Group meetings and
project portfolio

All group meetings should be formalised.
Meeting record to contain
a brief description of main decisions taken,
the named individual responsible for a specific
piece of work. (a quarter A4 size!!!)
Attendance at all meetings need to be verified by
attendees signatures.

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Health Science Students Group meetings and
project portfolio

All Health Science students must keep an
individual record of group meetings and related
correspondence.
Include all e-mails related to the production of
your report in your individual portfolios.
Onus on students to provide material evidence of
contribution.
Individual portfolios must be submitted with
final report.

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Recommended Course Reading

Naidoo, J., Wills, J. (Eds.). (2008). Health
studies An introduction (2nd ed.). Houndsmills
Palgrave MacMillan.
Tones, K., Tilford, S. (2001). Health
promotion Effectiveness, efficiency and equity
(3rd ed.). Cheltenham Nelson Thornes.
Naidoo, J., Wills, J. (2000). Health promotion
foundations for practice Balliere Tindall Royal
College of Nursing.
See course outline for additional references and
resources.

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Tips!

Health and health promotion are contested
concepts!
Health has been viewed by Western societies
during recent history as associated with the
presence or absence of disease and illness.
Medically dominated field - scientific
understanding and knowledge base.
This view is increasingly challenged on many
fronts.
This course is designed to challenge your
currently held views (values) about health
promotion even if you think that you dont have
any such views on the issue yet.

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Tips!