Basics of Health PromotionLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Students
- recognize concepts of health and health promotion
- recognize promotive and preventative approaches to health promotion at individual, community and society levels, salotogenesis
- recognize multilevel determinates of health and well-being and the socio-ecological model of health determinates
- recognize national and international strategies and programs of HP
- overview of national and international structure, organizations and actors (settings) of HP health promotion

Content

Health and health promotion concepts (WHO and other approaches). Health determinants (environment, media, regulations, consumer education, behaviour, etc.). Health promoting institutions. National health strategies. International health promotion organizations (WHO, IUHPE, EUHPA etc.), their health policies and strategies. Management, planning and assessment of health promotion activities. Independent work: studying the movement of Estonian and international health promoting institutions.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Student
- knows and understands the key concepts of health and health promotion, as well as ethical principles, and is able to apply them
- knows and understands comprehensive and multilevel determinants of health, frameworks and models as socioecological model
- is familiar with the national and international strategies, programmes and agendas of health promotion (e.g. HiAP)
- is aware of HP organizational structures on national and international levels