Health Promotion

Instruction is in the form of lectures, group work and seminars. The planning of a seminar on course content and presentation of research is part of the course.

The course comprises the following five components:
- the scope and content of the holistic health concept, definition of health promotion and its development over time
- psychological, collective and organisational Empowerment compared with powerlessness, Antonovsky's theories on salutogenesis, pathogenesis, resilience and a sense of coherence (KASAM)
- fair health described in terms of socioeconomic factors and human rights, equql treatment in terms of power structures and gender theory
- theories on change processes at the individual, population and social level
- Goals (WHO and nationally) and policies controlling health promotion, top-down and bootom-up perspectives, intersectorial cooperation of teams and organisations.

Progressive specialisation: A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)

Education level: Master's level

Admission requirements: General admission requirements for admission to Master-level courses plus at least 60 ECTS cr and upper secondary level Swedish B/Swedish 2 B and English A, or equivalent

Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.

This course is included in the following programme

• Master Programme in Health Science: Focus Public Health Sciences (studied during year 2)