Health Promotion attempts to enable people to take control over and improve their own health. It builds on knowledge from behavioural science that individual behaviour and health are determined by the social, physical and economic environment. This module will consider the nature of health promotion, the associated ideological dilemmas, current understanding of individual and group behaviours, methods of promoting health and the evaluation of health promotion. The module will also consider the principles, methods and applications of screening for early detection, prevention, treatment and control of disease and the evaluation of screening programmes.

Main teachers

• Sarah Baker (United Kingdom)

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
30	150	7

Health Protection is an increasingly important part of public health practice and is a core competency for accreditation as a UK public health practitioner. The module will cover biological, chemical and radiological threats to health. Whilst it is not possible to go into all the details for each of these, some of the more common scenarios will be addressed. The  module will equip students with the key knowledge and skills required to respond in an appropriate way to any of these threats to human health, including when they present as a health emergency.

Main teachers

• Andrew Furber (United Kingdom)

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
30	150	7