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Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Public Health

HSC503 · Health Education and Promoting Wellbeing — Week 3 of 16

CourseHSC503
Week3 of 16
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This week’s topics

Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Public Health

  1. Nutritional guidelines and metabolic health
  2. Physical inactivity and non-communicable disease burden
  3. Obesity prevention strategies
  4. Lifestyle risk modification
  5. PPI in Action Webinar Series part 3: Involving young people in the prevention of childhood obesity
  6. From White House Chef to Obama’s Nutrition Policy Advisor | Sam Kass | Voices in Leadership
  7. Epidemiological transition
  8. Edible Education: Nutrition, Health, and Diet Related Disease
  9. Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity

What you will be able to do

  • 1.4 Analyse the connection between diet, exercise and health.

Activity

Start with this week’s 5 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the connection between diet, exercise and health.

Study materials

Videos

  • PPI in Action Webinar Series part 3: Involving young people in the prevention of childhood obesity · YouTube · NIHRtv · 65 min · for registered students
  • From White House Chef to Obama’s Nutrition Policy Advisor | Sam Kass | Voices in Leadership · YouTube · Harvard University · 58 min · for registered students
  • Epidemiological transition · YouTube · Global Health with Greg Martin · 7 min · for registered students
  • Food Insecurity and Liberal Trade Policy | LSE Department of Health Policy · YouTube · LSE · 4 min · for registered students
  • Webinar: What can local government in England do to tackle the leading risk factors for ill health? · YouTube · The Health Foundation · 76 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions (NICE NG183, 2020) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
  • Psychology 2e, ch. 14: Stress, Lifestyle, and Health · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 495–546 · for registered students
  • Lifespan Development, ch. 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood (Ages 18 to 29) · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 575–636 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Concepts and Models of Health
  • Week 2: Determinants of Health and Well-being
  • Week 3: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Public Health
  • Week 4: Media Influence on Health Attitudes
  • Week 5: Principles of Health Promotion and Protection
  • Week 6: Behaviour Change Models in National Campaigns
  • Week 7: Evaluating Behaviour Change Approaches
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Campaign Rationale and Ethical Practice
  • Week 10: Implementing Health Education Campaigns
  • Week 11: Campaign Evaluation and Impact Assessment
  • Week 12: Applying Health Education and Promoting Wellbeing in practi…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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