This module Health Promotion in Healthcare Practice aims to reflect the inter-professional working within the Health Service and be of interest to nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals. The purpose of this module is to provide the students with the knowledge and skills to critically appraise and develop their role as a practitioner in health promotion in healthcare practice in a variety of settings.

 

• Philosophies and principles of health promotion, distinction between health promotion and health education in practice. 
• Theories, models, processes, management and evaluation of behavioural change at individual and population level.
• Role of the healthcare practitioner as health promoting agent to examine the practice and policy evidence base for the promotion of health and disease prevention, the determinants of health and health inequalities.
• Needs assessment of health care needs, key groups and settings for health promotion, community development, local, national and international strategy documents, health policy and politics, planning, designing, implementing and evaluation of health promotion programmes, competency domains to work in partnership as an effective health promoter with clients, family and multi-agencies, empowerment, outcomes and quality issues.

 

Learning outcomes:

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the core concepts, principles and values that underpin health promotion ·
• Demonstrate a critical understanding and application of the theories, models, philosophies and principles underpinning health promotion in healthcare practice.
• Critically appraise the practical approaches to behaviour change in the application to health promotion practice in a variety of settings. · Critically reflect on the evolving role of the healthcare practitioner within health promotion, the competencies required and how this role may be used to effect change and address health inequalities.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between individual behavioural, community and structural level factors in order to develop, assess, implement and evaluate quality health promotion programmes relevant to healthcare.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges for the application of the settings approach to health promotion practice.
• Critically examine the concepts of empowerment, community development and partnership approaches (clients, family and multi-agencies