This is a Health Promotion and Disease prevention theory module.
The module aims to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and values essential for health promotion and disease prevention among healthcare users across the lifespan. It covers theories and approaches to health promotion and disease prevention, principles guiding health promotion, and illness prevention at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. It is based on three diverse local communities attached to the program, with whom the students interact and work throughout the module.
The primary focus of the module is on health promotion and disease prevention underpinned by the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion of 1986, the Health Promotion Strategic Framework, the Jakarta Declaration of 1997 and the Bangkok Charter of 2005, the WHO principles of health promotion and the South African National Health Promotion Policy and Strategy 0f 2015 as amended and various related contextual policies on health promotion.
The teaching methods in this module include community-based learning, problem-based learning, group discussion, seminars, lectures, E-learning and self-directed learning. Moodle is the student learning management platform utilised in the module. During these times, the individual's and the group's learning activities are established, and various group projects are completed. This module has three accredited communities, each led by the facilitator. Students are randomly assigned to the communities.
