Course Code: MMAEHP01

Course Title: Developing and promoting health and wellbeing: concepts and issues

College: IoE

Course Director: Ian Warwick

Course Description: The overall aim of the module is to introduce you to key concepts and issues in the promotion of health and well-being. You will examine ways that health and well-being have been conceptualised. You will also consider how a range of factors - from those that are structural in nature to those that are more individually or interpersonally focused - influence health and well-being. Following an overview of key approaches to, or models of, health promotion, you will be asked to apply what you have learned to a health-related topic or issue of particular interest to you. Throughout the module you will be encouraged to examine your understanding of your own professional practice and how best to develop it.

By the end of the module you will be able to:

• Understand some of the values and forms of knowledge that underpin your own professional practice with regard to promoting health and wellbeing;

• Identify ways that health and well-being have been understood and explained;

• Examine how a range of factors at the macro, meso (or middle) and micro levels, influence health and well-being;

• Critically appraise the strengths and areas for development of approaches to, and models of, health promotion;

• Explore how your understanding of health and well-being contributes to your own professional practice.

Assessment: 100% Portfolio of study; 500 word essay

Course Credit: This course offers 30 credits that can be transferred to IoE Certificate, Diploma or Masters-level programmes, on consultation with the IoE Registry

Course Study Hours/Duration: 30 hours over 10 weeks

Schedule of Availability: April - July (Deadline for applications mid-March)

Delivery Mechanisms: Online VLE

Cost: Standard - £1572; Subsidised - £688; ELQ - £909

How to apply: To enquire about applying for this course, or for any other information, please contact the Course Administrator using the online Enquiry Form below