Health Promotion

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Health Promotion

King's College London
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The MSc in Health Promotion will enable you to develop and enhance knowledge, understanding and critically reflect on theories and ideologies central to the notion of health, and appreciate the social influences and context of health and health related practice. It will also help you explore what it might mean to be engaged in health promotion at the level of policy, practice or research.

KEY BENEFITS

  • Offers the opportunity to debate and discuss theory and practice in the field with well-recognised and research active teaching staff.
  • Particular focus on theoretical and conceptual reflection on practice.
  • Nationally respected practitioners offer visiting teacher inputs.
  • Located in the heart …

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The MSc in Health Promotion will enable you to develop and enhance knowledge, understanding and critically reflect on theories and ideologies central to the notion of health, and appreciate the social influences and context of health and health related practice. It will also help you explore what it might mean to be engaged in health promotion at the level of policy, practice or research.

KEY BENEFITS

  • Offers the opportunity to debate and discuss theory and practice in the field with well-recognised and research active teaching staff.
  • Particular focus on theoretical and conceptual reflection on practice.
  • Nationally respected practitioners offer visiting teacher inputs.
  • Located in the heart of London.

PURPOSEFor students from a variety of backgrounds including school teaching, nursing, medicine, dentistry, NHS and local authority health education and health promotion services and voluntary agencies. To develop and enhance knowledge, understanding and critical reflection on theories and ideologies central to the notion of health, and appreciation of the social influences and context of health and health related practice. To develop awareness of modern social theory and the relationship between health and society. It will also help you explore what it might mean to be engaged in health promotion at the level of policy, practice or research.

DESCRIPTION

The four core taught modules are:

  • Health: Concepts & Theories;
  • The Social Context of Health;
  • Values, Ethics & Public Health;
  • Research Methods.

There is also a special study taught module on Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives.

Students also need to complete a dissertation by independent supervised study.



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