Faculty of Humanities and Education (Postgraduate) - The University ...

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POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
Major competencies to be developed
• Critical thinking about social relationships and networks
• Practical skills for working with social networks
• Sensitization to human rights, social justice, and advocacy
for marginalized populations
• Reflexive and critical insights into the candidate’s
own vantage point and how it might be biased (albeit
inadvertently)
• Ability to analyse impacts on people’s health and wellbeing
using the lenses of risk, marginalization, power
dynamics and gender
• A capacity to use a risk assessment to plan interventions
for improving community health
• Capacity to analyse the causes and social and health
impacts of bullying, harassment, violence, sexual assault,
and hate crimes
• Insights and skills to work effectively with marginalized and
diverse populations, and to advocate for and with them
• Insights and skills to work effectively with key health issues
that are traditionally marginalized (such as mental health
and sexual health), and to advocate for improved services
and social justice in relation to them
• Understand the health implications of other key practices
that impact on public health (such as smoking, drugs,
alcohol)
ASSESSMENT
Coursework Assignment 100%
Required Reading
Farmer, P. (2001) Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
(Updated Edition). University of California Press. (ISBN:
0520229134)
Irvine, J. M. (1994). Sexual cultures and the construction of
adolescent identities (Health, Society, and Policy Series).
Temple University Press. (ISBN: 1566391369)
Klein, A., Day, M., Harriott, A. (2004). Caribbean drugs from
criminalization to harm reduction. Kingston: Ian Randle
Publishing. (ISBN: 976 637 194 6)
Lupton, D. (1999). Risk. Routledge. (ISBN: 0415183340)
Rew, L. (2004). Adolescent health: A multidisciplinary approach to
theory, research, and intervention. Sage. (ISBN: 0761929118)
Recommended Reading
Berkman, L. F., Kawachi, I. (2000). Social epidemiology. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (ISBN: 0195083318)
Rundle, A., Carvalho, M., Robinson, M. (2002). Cultural competence
in health care: a practical guide. Jossey-Bass. (ISBN:
078796221X)
Turner, B. (2004). The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of
Health and Illness. WW Norton. (ISBN: 0393975053)
6.3 HEPR 6003 - Strategies, Skills, and Interventions
for Promoting Health (8 credits)
Course Overview
This course introduces students to the concept and
operationalization of Health Promotion as a new approach to
addressing the determinants of health. The course is aimed at
enhancing participants’understanding, analysis and theoretical
application of the behaviour change models and theories
that have influenced the development of Health Promotion.
Participants should gain an understanding of the development
of Health Promotion in relation to changing health patterns;
and their role in the operationalization of the strategies of
the Caribbean Charter for Health Promotion in addressing
identified health issues impacting on individuals, families and
communities. Participants will also have the opportunity to
critically examine and evaluate the impact of, and potential for
sustainability, of health promotion interventions through onsite
visits.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Critically examine the determinants of health and their
potential impact on health and quality of life
• Critically examine the development of Health Promotion in
the Caribbean within historical, economic and theoretical
contexts
• Apply Health Behaviour Change and Health Promotion
models and theories when addressing health issues of
individuals, families and communities.
• Assess health beliefs and health behaviours
• Utilize the Health Promotion approach in different
settings – Healthy Communities, Healthy Schools, Healthy
Workplaces
• Demonstrate an understanding of the steps involved
in developing macro-level responses including policy,
strategy, and large scale campaigns
• Utilize methods for advocacy, lobbying, community
consultation, and creation of supportive public opinion to
ensure programme viability and sustainability
• Develop, Implement and evaluate Health Promotion
interventions to address a current health issue
• Work confidently from a social justice and human rights
framework with issues that attract stigma, prejudice, and
discrimination
CONTENT
1. Operational definitions and operationalization of the
following concepts:
a. Health behaviour
b. Health education
c. Health protection
d. Health Promotion
2. The determinants of health
a. Physical (biological)
b. Social
c. Environmental