Strategies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the theories and strategies of health promotion and disease prevention.  

The course will include a focus on selected types of structural interventions (e.g. taxation, pricing, national legislation),  bio-medical interventions (e.g. vaccine- and drug-based interventions), and behavioural change related health promotion. 

The course will also focus on approaches to plan and evaluate health promotion and interventions in low-, middle- and high-income contexts.

The students will be introduced to strategies to reduce health-related inequalities in low-middle- and high-income contexts. The students will combine relevant skills obtained in previous courses. 

Students will be introduced to methods, tools and skills necessary to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention activities concerning individuals, families, groups, and communities, including interactions between individuals and social groups.

There will be a focus on the analysis of stakeholders and actors as well as health care systems and their interaction with the population and other sectors of society in a wider socio-political context. This part of the course will also address a decolonization of the global public health agenda. 

The course will address existing knowledge and experiences in health promotion and disease prevention-related eHealth and mHealth approaches.

The course includes discussions of values and ethics in health promotion and disease prevention, priorities and dilemmas in health interventions.

Skills will be acquired in developing health-related advocacy-products and strategies of relevance for decision makers, media, organizations, as well as population groups – using a range of tools and strategies and through different media, including social media.