Prevention, intervention and health promotion, 7.5 ECTS
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Description
The course provides knowledge of general methods for prevention, intervention and health promotion interventions for various public health problems. The purpose is to provide the student with knowledge of and tools for motivational enhancement interventions, attitude change and behavioral change. The course addresses the suitability of providing interventions within the framework of different arenas (e.g. schools and workplaces). The course focuses both on practical examples regarding effective methods in the field and on theoretical knowledge that is necessary to be able to understand and apply relevant methods. After completing the course, the student will have a general theoretical and practical knowledge in the field and be able to describe and compare different methods in the field.
Area of interests: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer. This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.
Subject
Public Health Sciences
Public health science is a multidisciplinary subject focusing on the relation between society and health. These relations are studied on both societal, group and individual level, but relations between these levels are also central. Public health science focus on links between macro and micro, where the endpoints consists of the structure of society and individual biological processes, as well as processes over the life cycle.
CHESS (Centre for Health Equity Studies) provide the Master programme “Population health: Societal and individual perspectives” 120 ECTS. With a basis in current international research, the Master programme provide a broad knowledge in Public health and a deepend understanding for how health is related to individual characteristics and the structuring of society. From a life course perspective and with a focus on international health the programme deals with the whole chain from biological processes to welfare policy, where connections to inequality in health is put forward.