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Course details

Course type:

Short Course

Mode of study:

Duration:

5 weeks

Home fee:

£2,810

Overseas fee:

£2,810

Full Time Face to Face course at LSTM in Liverpool.

Programme Overview

This course aims to act as a foundation for public health practice and facilitate students’ development of detailed knowledge and understanding of theories of health and its social, environmental and other structural determinants. The course will encourage the development of leadership skills in health promotion and population-wide, whole service design processes for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including health needs assessment, quality control, governance and evaluation of services and other interventions to improve public health practice in low- and middle-income settings.

You will explore core principles of health and health promotion and encourage a critical review of how policy is developed and translated into evidence-based practice and services especially in low- and middle-income settings. You will cover global, national and local public health issues, but with a focus on non-communicable diseases. A critical understanding of the wider determinants of health and health equity will be developed for NCDs, including the importance of promoting good health in early childhood. You will critically review models and theories of health promotion, and the significance of health literacy.
You will focus primarily on public health practice linked to non-communicable diseases, such as the rise in disease burden from obesity, and its consequences in low- and middle-income countries. Tobacco and alcohol use and violence, as public health issues, will be used to explore a range of policy, legal and community based public health interventions.

A scenario-based approach will be used to develop your knowledge and skills for strategic leadership of health systems and service development. This will include reference to needs assessment, economic evaluation, governance, community involvement, quality improvement and evaluation. Historical influences on the development of health systems and programmes will be critically reviewed, including reference to the colonial past. Case studies will be used to explore the strategic development goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and how it is being implemented in a range of settings.

20 Academic Credits - Assessments

For an additional fee of £95, you can be entered for full Academic Credits for this course.

Please note that assessments may change at the discretion of the Directors of Study. All students will be made aware of new assessment details. The academic credits are offered to provide choice and flexibility to all our students, and students who do not wish to be entered for academic credits will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.

Option for Academic Credit - 20 Credits at Masters level
This course is assessed by :

60% - 3,000 word Written Report. Students will be provided with a range of scenarios based on data about population health need and will develop practical, economically sound, evidence-based recommendations for improvement in services linked to the chosen scenario

30% - Group Presentation. Design and present an innovative health promotion intervention to address a specific health need in a named low- or middle-income setting.

10% - Reflection. Each student will write a 750-word reflective piece about the their individual contribution to the group work for the presentation

Syllabus

Health promotion

The historical development of the concept of health promotion with reference to the Declaration of Primary Health Care at Alma-Ata, WHO’s targets for Health for All, the ‘Ottawa Charter’ (1986) and key developments from subsequent global conference
Review of Global WHO programmes and strategic goals for disease reduction and improved health.
Review major specific health promotion interventions, and how these are translated from global guidelines and conventions to national policy with analysis of their evidence base, successes and challenges. To include tobacco, alcohol, violence, nutrition and physical activity.
The promotion of health in early childhood as a public health issue will also be covered as a global foundation to reduce health inequalities.
Concepts of healthy public policy and the difference between ‘health’ and ‘health care’
The importance of ethics in health promotion, independence and advocacy as a public health professional responsibility
Evidence and cost effectiveness of major health promotion programmes, including the major challenges associated with monitoring and evaluating health promotion programmes
Concepts of risk and risk communication, and the use of mass media campaigns
Health literacy; Behaviour change theories and models, including Health seeking behaviour
Social marketing
Nudge

Screening – Evaluation via sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and maintenance of quality in screening programmes
Health systems

Historical development of various health systems, including reference to the impact of colonialism
Health systems, and health service design and quality improvement
Health systems
Health service design and redesign
Health needs assessment (including interpretation of results)
Community participation
Quality improvement
Governance frameworks
Programme monitoring and evaluation
Health impact assessment
Health equity audit

Introduction to health economics

Health economic essentials e.g. DALY, QALY
The paradox created by adopting a medical model of health to determine health promotion priorities and needs. Prioritisation of need and tensions linked to resource allocation for prevention, particularly of non-communicable diseases
Economic evaluation e.g. cost effectiveness, cost benefit, cost-utility, PBMA
Health financing
Universal health coverage

Aims

This course aims to:

Critically explore health promotion models and their application to strategies, policies and practice to improve health in individual and community settings.

Critically review how interventions to promote health within health and other services and systems in resource poor settings are developed and continuously strengthened.

Critically review the economics of health promotion, and health care interventions and decisions in low- and middle-income settings

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Start date	End date	Home fee	Overseas fee
9 January 2023	10 February 2023	£2,810	£2,810	Apply

Start date:
9 January 2023

End date:
10 February 2023

Home fee:
£2,810

Overseas fee:
£2,810

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