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Health promotionLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: AV00FK20

Credits

5 op

Objective

-You understand the social positioning of health-promoting physical activity and the possibilities of practical tools in different operating environments for health promotion and health enhancing physical activity.
-You understand the ethical principles of health promotion and can consider them at different stages of planning, implementing and evaluating health-promoting physical activity.
-You understand the theoretical and practical foundations of health behavior change and can apply them at different stages of planning, implementing and evaluating health-promoting physical activity.

Content

- How is health-promoting physical activity positioned socially?
- What are the practical tools for promoting physical activity in different health-promoting operating environments?
- What are the ethical principles of health promotion?
- How do you consider ethical principles at different stages of planning, implementing and evaluating health-promoting physical activity?
- What are the theoretical and practical foundations of health behavior change?
- How do you apply theories and tools related to health behavior change at different stages of planning, implementing and evaluating health-promoting physical activity?

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students can
a. use professional terminology systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with clients, users and target groups.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.