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The Syllabus

Going upstream
  • Getting started
  • Health
  • Why does my practice need to change?
  • The future of public health
  • Summary of the week
Health promotion in practice
  • The week ahead
  • The nurse as a promoter of health
  • Your values as a health promoter
  • Summary of the week

Health and wellbeing
  • Health as value
  • How should health be defined?
  • Models of health
  • Health and wellbeing
  • End of the week
Inequalities in health
  • Welcome
  • Introduction to health inequality and health equity
  • Explaining why health inequalities exist
  • Reducing health inequalities
  • End of the week

Community health needs
  • Welcome to the week
  • What is a community?
  • Health needs assessment
  • What are health needs?
  • Review of the week
Approaches to assessing community health needs
  • Welcome to the week
  • Approaches to community health needs assessment
  • Local community health needs assessment
  • Summary

Healing the community
  • Getting started
  • Approaches to promoting health
  • Health priorities for action
  • Thinking about individual health related behaviour change
  • Summary
Involving the community
  • Getting started
  • Involving the community
  • Developing the community
  • Summary of the week

Building a culture of health
  • Welcome to the week
  • Policy and health
  • Partnership for health
  • Leading for change
  • Review of the week
Consolidation and review
  • Welcome to the week
  • Moving upstream
  • ExpertTrack wrap up

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