Health Promotion Principles and Practice

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Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate awareness of the historical origins of health promotion; 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of health promotion; 3. Demonstrate an understanding of, and capacity to apply the conceptual framework of contemporary health promotion practice; 4. Demonstrate an understanding of, and capacity to undertake of health promotion evaluation practices; 5. Demonstrate an awareness of challenges to health promotion in a changing world; and 6. Demonstrate the capacity to critically analyse health promotion practice. Required Texts: Talbot, L. and Verrinder, G. (2014) Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach, 5th Edition. Churchill Livingstone: Chatswood, NSW. ISBN: 9780729541657