HEALTH PROMOTION APPROACHES AND METHODS (1807)
ORGANISERS: Professor Mark Petticrew, Wendy Macdowall
DATES: 9 January 2012 to 8 February 2012 (9:00am Monday to 12:30pm Wednesday)
AIM
To provide students with an overview and critical appreciation of a range of approaches and methods for promoting health, at the individual, community and population levels.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this module students should be able to:
- describe a range of different approaches and methods for promoting health and their theoretical underpinnings;
- critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches and methods covered in the course;
- demonstrate the appropriate use of different approaches and methods in a variety of contexts.
CONSTITUENCY
This module is compulsory for students taking the Health Promotion stream of the MSc Public Health and optional for other Public Health streams and MScs. The module is available to MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research. Only in exceptional circumstances will other students who have not undertaken the Health Promotion Theory (1109) linear module be allowed to take this module. Such cases should be discussed with the Module Organiser.
CONCEPTUAL OUTLINE
This module builds on the theoretical core covered in the Term 1 Health Promotion Theory linear module. The module covers many of the different approaches and methods available to people engaged in health promotion practice, which address individual, community and structural determinants of health. Lectures will cover topics such motivational interviewing, peer education, theatre in health promotion, mass media campaigns, social marketing, media advocacy, community mobilisation, and structural approaches. It will explore the strengths and weaknesses of these various approaches and methods and the contexts in which they might be used.
TEACHING STRATEGY
Teaching will be by lectures and seminars. There will be 10 half-day sessions, most of which will take the form of a one hour lecture linked to a one and a half hour seminar. The seminars will consist of range of different tasks including role-play, group-work and presentations.
LEARNING TIME
The module is made up of 150 Notional Learning Hours – 27 hours contact time, 25 hours directed self-study, 30 hours self-directed learning, and 68 hours assessment, review and revision.
ASSESSMENT
Students will be asked to produce a manual containing a summary of the different approaches and methods covered in the course. For each they will include a brief description of the approach, its strengths and weakness and when it might be used. Students will be expected to accumulate this material throughout the module and to submit it for assessment in week 5. It is anticipated that this will provide students with a practical 'guide' for future reference.
FEE
£1,600 including access to LSHTM library and learning resources, study materials and assessment.
