Promotion de la Santé et Prévention

EHESP School of Public Health in Rennes, France (57 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the year, students are able to:

  • mobilize key concepts, theories and models from different disciplines that are mobilized in the field of health promotion and prevention,
  • identify the nature and causes of the main social, ecological and behavioural determinants that affect the health of individuals and populations,
  • explain how socio-economic, psychosocial, political and environmental factors interact with each other to produce health inequalities,
  • to implement the main steps and procedures in the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes and policies – beyond the health sector alone, in an intersectoral perspective – aimed at improving the health of individuals and populations, as well as reducing health inequalities,
  • apply an evidence-based approach to the development and implementation of health promotion and prevention programmes or services,
  • identify and apply ethical principles in the development and implementation of health promotion and prevention programmes or services.

Course content

Compulsory modules (37 ECTS)

  • Contemporary issues in health promotion and prevention
  • Strategies and methods of intervention in prevention and health promotion
  • Health promotion and prevention projects
  • Research methods applied to HPP
  • Thematic in-depth study in health promotion and prevention
  • In-depth methodological analysis and evaluation
  • In-depth study of HPP strategies
  • Thematic in-depth studies in health promotion and prevention

Dissertation and internship (20 ECTS)