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DESIGNING HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMMES AND INTERVENTIONS
COURSE AIM
Study programme design: Arja Liinamo and Rea Raus
Programme implementation: Arja Liinamo and Kädi Lepp
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FUTURE-ORIENTED HEALTH PROMOTION
The aim of the course is to give students necessary competencies for designing health promotion programmes and interventions. Needs assessment, cost-effectiveness and health impact assessment are just a few of the themes needed to teach those competencies. After nishing the course, students will be able to use a variety of needs assessment methods, current models and systematic approaches and will be able to implement sustainable practices.
e teacher of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
To be able to promote people’s health, it is important to use different kinds of methods, indicators and data sources to identify the needs. As important is to understand the multilevel determinants
of health, to be able to focus health promotion activities in the interventions or programs for the issues that are critical for health and wellbeing. For doing this kind of health promoting planning, which is the core skill of health promotion professionals, many logical models are useful in helping to proceed systematically, step by step. By de ning the speci ed aims and health promotion actions to reach those aims, we are forced to plan the indicators which tell how we have succeeded. Evaluation is to be planned while planning health promotion interventions and programs. This enables to gain the evidence of the effectiveness of the activities.