Course Details

1. Examine and explain the terms: health and illness in contemporary society, alternative methods of medicine, medicalisation of health and its implications to health education and health promotion.
2. Identify and describe different reasons that determine the acquisition of health habits (attitudes, values gender, age, environment, peers, media etc.) and discuss their implications to health education.
3. Compare and contrast models of health (i.e: biomedical model, social model, psychosocial model) and theories of behaviour change and discuss their relationship to health education in schools.
4. Identify different types of child and women abuse (physical, psychological, mental, social, and sexual), discuss their implications to health and propose ways of preventing child abuse and dealing with it.
5. Identify and discuss gender influences on physical and psychological health, examine the role of stereotypes in relation to health and explain reasons for gender inequalities in health.
6. Develop and apply communication skills (listening skills, expression of feelings), assertiveness skills and skills for resolving conflict and examine their relationship to health maintenance and health promotion.
7. Develop and apply communication skills (listening skills, expression of feelings), assertiveness skills and skills for resolving conflict and examine their relationship to health maintenance and health promotion.

·    Historical perspective of health. Contemporary approaches to health, mental health, illness, and preventive behaviours, health behaviours (attitudes, values gender, age, environment, peers, media etc.) and implications to health education.

·   Health Models: Models of health (i.e.: biomedical model, social model, biosychosocial) and their relationship to health education and health promotion schools.

·   Alternative Medicine: Alternative methods of medicine (i.e.: homeopathy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, osteopathology).  Medicalisation of health and its implications for society, for health education and for health promotion in schools.

·   Theories / Models of Behaviour Change:  Theories / models of behaviour change (the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action, the precede-proceed action model) and their relationship to health education. Factors that determine acquisition of health habits (attitudes, values gender, age, environment, peers, media etc.)

·   Healthy Relationships and Mental Health Promotion: Skills for effective communication (listening skills, expression of feelings etc.), assertiveness skills and skills for resolving conflict in relationships.  Areas in the school curriculum that could help children form healthy relationships.

·   Child Abuse – Domestic Violence: Different types of child and women abuse. (Physical, psychological, mental, social, and sexual).  Implications of abuse to health.  Skills for identifying and reporting child abuse.

·   Gender and Health: Gender influences on physical and psychological health. The role of stereotypes in relation to physical, social and psychological health.

• Lecture Notes
• Power point presentations
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