TM5528:03
Health Promotion
Townsville
First or second semester.
Designed to introduce students to the competencies involved in the development of health promotion activities. Examines the various elements and models of health promotion. Examines theories, barriers and techniques involved in knowledge and behaviour change. Introduces students to the process of health promotion planning, implementation and evaluation. Examines research requirements of the planning stage, methods of collecting data and analysis. Students will be required to enter the subject with a designated health problem in mind, preferably in their own field of work. Literature, previous studies, related health promotional material, demographic, epidemiological, social and cultural information relating to this problem should be brought to the subject. Students will apply knowledge to the development of their own project.
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