Health PromotionLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

After completing the study unit, students master the core concepts and premises of health promotion. They know how to implement client-oriented and empowering health communication in support of clients’ health behaviour change and use comprehensive data for health promotion. Students identify health challenges of population and find work methods to promote public health at individual, group, community and population level. In addition, students acquire a working knowledge of vaccinations and know how to apply it to their work with clients.

Content

Core concepts and premises of health promotion
Client-orientedness and empowerment in health promotion: identification of health needs, empowering communication methods and the transtheoretical model in supporting lifestyle change
Material and data of health promotion
Vaccination – primary preventative work method promoting public health
Groups as a work method of health promotion
Public health and promotion of healthy lifestyle
Society and health promotion: central laws related to health promotion, strategies, national and international programmes