What will you study on this course?

Intended programme outcomes

The course provides opportunities for students to achieve and demonstrate the following learning outcomes.

Knowledge and understanding

Students will gain knowledge and understanding of:

Social and behavioural sciences: the social, psychological, political and cultural influences affecting health promotion and public health policy and practice.

Health economics: the key concepts of scarcity, choice and opportunity cost in health economics.

Research: quantitative and qualitative research, their approaches to scientific inquiry, their methodologies and related methods.

Epidemiology: epidemiological principles and research to inform public health and health promotion.

Principles and practice of public health promotion: the theory and practice of health promotion within the new public health agenda.

Subject Specific Skills

Students will have opportunities to:

Develop surveillance and assessment skills relating to the population’s health and well-being.

Critically understand the skills needed for promoting and protecting the population’s health and well-being.

Develop strategic qualities to improve health and well-being.

Develop skills in working with, and for, communities to improve health and well-being.

Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights.

Ethically manage self, people and resources to improve health and well-being.

Conduct and/or interpret health promotion and public health research.

Cognitive (thinking) Skills

Students will have the ability to:

Recognise, critically analyse, and apply theories, paradigms, concepts and principles of public health and health promotion.

Critically understand research and development.

Analyse, synthesise, and apply information logically and critically.

Reflect and utilise reflection to enhance self-awareness, knowledge and skills.

Key Skills

Students will be able to:

Critically analyse knowledge from relevant sources to develop and present coherent arguments.

Communicate clearly, concisely, and confidently in spoken and written formats.

Plan, perform and report on public health and health promotion data with due regard to ethical issues.

Use and interpret evidence critically.

Develop the capacity for independent learning and effective utilisation of available resources.

Use IT skills, effectively utilising computing and word processing facilities, electronic databases and Blackboard.