82094 - Community-Based Health Promotion

Learning outcomes

The course aims to introduce students to some intervention strategies and methods that are part of the professional competences of psychologists who work in the field of prevention and health promotion in a variety of contexts (school, health services, local communities, media).

Course contents

Health promotion.

Analysis of the "determinants" of health behaviors.

Inequalities and health

Assessement of health needs in communities.

Behavior change techniques.

Participatory planning of preventive and health promotion interventions.

Risk perception and communication. Technological innovations and health promotion.

Assessment of intervention programmes.

Readings/Bibliography

Readings will be available on the website of the course before the beginning of classes. 

Teaching methods

• lectures
  
• analysis of papers and intervention projects
• group work on the development of a health promotion project.

Assessment methods

 

The final exam aims to assess students' learning of health promotion; of the "determinants" of health and health behaviors; of basics of project planning and evaluation, on methods for health promotion interventions. 

The exam includes two parts.

a)project work (50%) to be conducted in small groups (3-4 members). Students will be requested to develop the analysis of a health issue, and to elaborate intervention proposals. The results will be described in a 20 pages report, to be preliminarily presented and discussed during class (during the last lectures), before finalising.

b)oral exam (50%) on the contents of the lectures and the reference list.

The final grade will be based on the following criteria: a)completeness of responses; b)capacity of critical analysis on the contents; c) capacity to establish connections among the theoretical concepts and to apply them to the analysis of concrete cases; d) formal characteristics of the outputs; e)the degree of involvement and active participation during classes. Honors will be allowed in case of satisfactory evaluation of all the previous points.

Exam for students not attending classes

The exam will include two parts:

1)Written exam (8 open ended questions) (2 hrs), on the contents discussed in the course and compulsory readings.

2)Oral exam, on the readings of the course, in which it will be possible to increase the grade of max 2 points.

The final grade will be based on the following criteria: a)completeness of responses; b)capacity of critical analysis on the contents; c) capacity to establish connections among the theoretical concepts and to apply them to the analysis of concrete cases; d) formal characteristics of the outputs.

Students should register for the exam on Studenti online platform.

Erasmus students can take the exam in English.

Teaching tools

slides (available on IOL online Platform), scientific papers, online bibliographic sources.

Office hours

See the website of Elvira Cicognani