This week’s topics
Principles of Health Promotion and Protection
- Health education versus health protection
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention
- Beattie and Tannahill models
- Community empowerment approaches
- Prevention Levels & Determinants of Health: Community Health - Fundamentals of Nursing | @LevelUpRN
- (L002) What is Public Health?
- (A001) What Does Public Health Do?
What you will be able to do
- 1.6 Explain the terms: ● health education ● health protection ● disease prevention.
- 1.7 Explain approaches to health promotion.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the terms: ● health education ● health protection ● disease prevention.
Study materials
Videos
- Prevention Levels & Determinants of Health: Community Health - Fundamentals of Nursing | @LevelUpRN · YouTube · Level Up RN · 7 min · for registered students
- (L002) What is Public Health? · YouTube · North Dakota Public Health Training Network · 40 min · for registered students
- (A001) What Does Public Health Do? · YouTube · North Dakota Public Health Training Network · 24 min · for registered students
- Transforming primary care with population health: moving to an outcome-based model · YouTube · The King's Fund · 58 min · for registered students
- U.S. Vaccine Policy and Public Health: New Challenges in Disease Prevention · YouTube · eCornell · 60 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC): practical resources · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
- Care and support statutory guidance (Care Act 2014, DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
- Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan for England (DHSC, 2025) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
