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BASICS OF HEALTH PROMOTION
Study programme design: Arja Liinamo, Triin Lepp and Kädi Lepp
Programme implementation: Arja Liinamo and Kädi Lepp
COURSE AIM
The Basics of Health Promotion is one of the fundamental programmes developed by the HPP project. The course aims to provide key concepts of health and health promotion and ways how to implement them. The programme contains the basic knowledge about health promotion, covering themes such as: health and health promotion concepts, health determinants (environment, media, regulations, consumer education, behaviour, etc.), health promoting institutions and national health strategies. Students, who have nished the course, know and understand the key concepts of health and health promotion, as well as ethical principles, and are able to apply them in their work.
e teacher of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Health promotion knowledge-base is built on the health promotion fundamental milestones and approaches, as the Ottawa Charter, multidisciplinary knowledge, ethical issues, concepts of health
and well-being. Understanding and re ecting on these issues is essential to adopting a promotive and proactive orientation for improving peoples and populations’ health. The structures and institutions for health promotion activities at national and international level helps to perceive health promotion practice locally as well as globally.
e teacher of Tallinn University Haapsalu College: K. Lepp
Competences of a health promotion specialist require orientation in the processes of salutogenesis, health determinants, different approaches to health promotion, knowledge of relevant theories
and models, and knowledge of relevant international and national institutions to provide guidance for practical action. During the course different interactive methods are used.
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FUTURE-ORIENTED HEALTH PROMOTION