Lecture: 4 hours/week
Class time will be used for lecture, group discussion, and group activities. Work outside of the classroom may include reading assignments and online discussion groups
- Terms and concepts
- Health promotion in Canada
- The history and context of health promotion in Canada
- The relationship between health promotion and population health
- Social determinants of health
- The healthy cities and communities approach to health
- Models and theories
- Systems approach
- Social theory
- Ecological model
- Behaviour change/interventions
- Behavioural theory
- Opportunities and challenges of a behaviour change approach to health
- Health equity
- Issues in healthy equity
- Decolonizing health promotion
- Health literacy
- Ethics in health promotion
- Planning a health promotion program
- Entry points for intervention
- Conducting a needs assessment
- Measurement and sampling
- Special topics (e.g., focusing on built environment)
- Implementing a health promotion program
- Developing a community of practice
- Program implementation
- Partnership and resources
- Social marketing
- Evaluating health promotion programs
- Goals, objectives, and outcomes
- Logic models
- Formative, process, outcome, and impact evaluation
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Define and discuss health, wellness, health education, and health promotion;
- Describe and discuss the primary determinants of health and behaviour change;
- Critically explore the concepts and theories of health promotion;
- Critically analyze health promotion approaches in health, social, organizational, and policy contexts;
- Apply the principles of research and evaluation in health promotion;
- Devise a health promotion intervention and an appropriate evaluation;
- Describe how vital statistics and epidemiological data are used for assessment and planning of health education and promotion.
Assessment will be in accordance with the 91¾ÞÈé Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester. Evaluation will be based on the following:
Tests 0-40%
Individual Assignments 0-20%
Applied Health Promotion Project 5-30%
Personal Reflection 0-20%
Group Assignments 0-30%
Participation 0-10%
Total 100%
This is a letter-graded course.
Consult the 91¾ÞÈé Bookstore for the latest required textbooks and materials. Example textbooks and materials may include:
Cross, R. (current edition). Health Promotion: Global Principles and Rractice. CABI.
Pederson, A. P., Rootman, I., Frohlich, K. L., & Dupéré, S. (current edition). Health Promotion in Canada: New Perspectives on Theory, Practice, Policy, and Research. Canadian Scholars.
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