This module will equip students with the core concepts and key competencies required for working within the field of health, health promotion and wellness.

1. Demonstrate they have a detailed knowledge and understanding of the core concepts in health promotion and wellness practice

2. Illustrate they have detailed knowledge and understanding of core competencies required for health promotion practicioners

3. Critically appraise health related strategies and polices

4. Self-reflect on the broad nature of health and health promotion work

5. Develop evidence based health promotion related tools and resources

The Student will learn about the process of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) which includes how to form a research question, search for relevant evidence, the subsequent analysis and synthesis of the findings and the dissemination and implementation of these findings. Students will also examine how to incorporate practitioner experience and service user views into their evidence based practice. This module will equip also students with the key competencies and skills required to source, critically appraise and communicate evidence within the health, wellness, health promotion and public health area.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of core epidemiological principles relevant for critical appraisal of epidemiological studies.

2. Intelligently source and critically appraise and synthesiseevidence pertaining to health, wellness, health promotion and public health

3. Develop strategies and utilise frameworks for putting evidence based research into practice

4. Critically discuss how evaluationscan be designed to contribute to practice informed evidence in health promotion.

5. Communicate evidence at appropriate level in a variety of settings and to different population groups across the lifespan

This modules aims to equip students with key skills in health behaviour change theory and practice.

1. Source and critically appraise evidence pertaining to health behaviour change and health behaviour maintenance

2. Critically appraise current theories, frameworks and techniques pertaining to behaviour change

3. Develop and understand core principles of behaviour change at individual, intrapersonal, environmental and policy based levels

4. Source, interpret and apply appropriate and referenced behaviour change data and research in a variety of health related behaviours

This module will equip the student with advanced statistical techniques for analysing data in the Public Health and Health Promotion fields. It provides the students with the ability to apply appropriate statistical techniques to data sets gathered during project work and also to comment on and rate techniques used in existing studies.

1. Formulate conclusions on the health of a population by applying a range ofadvanced statistical techniques in the analysis of population health data.

2. Model the relationships between variables using regression analysis

3. Explain the concept of survival analysis and apply the most commonly used mortality/survival functions

4. Justify the selection and application of appropriate quantitative analysis in global health literature and reports.

5. Use a statistical software package to carry out analysis on health related datasets.