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GLOBAL TRENDS AND HEALTH PROMOTION
Study programme design: Asta Lassila, Arja Liinamo and Rea Raus
Programme implementation: Asta Lassila and Rea Raus
COURSE AIM
This course aims to give an overview of health promotion challenges, agendas and commitments on a global scale. The state of global health, Social determinants of health, health disparities, global burden of diseases, communicable and noncommunicable diseases are just a short list of themes covered by the course. After nishing the course student will be able to critically analyse global trends and implement appropriate practices in HP to understand global contexts and implement gained knowledge into HP practices and interventions.
e teacher of Tallinn University Haapsalu College: R. Raus
The course addresses various challenges, problems and solutions related to health promotion, taking the holistic approach towards human health and wellbeing. The content and activities of global
initiatives will be explored to critically analyse global trends and relate them to local and national health promotion practices. Different environmental challenges are directly linked to the changes in human health. This programme teaches the students to analyse broader processes and see the relationships that affect health promotion.
e teacher of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
“An important subject and course, the content of course could be even wider, longer and more profound”.
“A really important and meaningful topic, not manageable, maybe understandable..”
“I received an overview of global trends and health promotion“.
“As a teacher I am convinced why we, Finnish health promoters, need to be aware of the global health situation”.
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