The module aims to develop the participants? professional competences to analyse the need for prevention and health promotion in any setting. The participants should be able to design, plan and evaluate any preventive or health promotion programme and to provide deeper insight and to develop further skills within this parts of public sciences.
The focus of the module is on prevention and health promotion within the health care system. Biological Physical-Chemical, Social Psycho-socio elements, strategies, programmes and projects: principal and logical structure, development, implementation, monitoring, management, evaluation. Further, careful reading and review of scientific articles is an important part of the module.

Stress is a rising public health problem with important consequences for the general well-being and health of the population, as well as for the labour market and the health sector. About ten percent of all Danes say that they experience high levels of stress in their daily life. Thus, even relatively small increases in disease risks associated with stress could have a large impact at the population level.

Through an examination of current epidemiological, psychological, social and historical research the course aims at discussing stress as a public health problem. Specifically, we will discuss 1) different definitions of stress and how these are operationalized in research, 2) risk factors for stress, 3) psychological, behavioural, and biological stress responses, 4) health consequences and socio-economic consequences of stress, and 5) stress prevention strategies.

Main teachers

• Finn Diderichsen (Danemark)

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
45	200	7.5