Certificate of Achievement

Zayna Lahham

has completed the following course:

Public Health and Nursing: The Greatest Wealth is Health

Coventry University

This online course evaluated critically the contribution of lay, official and professional accounts of health as approaches to promoting public health; discussed the importance of wellbeing to the public health agenda; and assessed the role of the nurse in working for health equity.

2 weeks, 5 hours per week

Kim Craig

Assistant Professor

Coventry University

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Evaluate critically the contribution of lay, official and professional accounts of health as approaches to promoting public health
  • Discuss the importance of wellbeing to the public health agenda
  • Develop a critical understanding of the possible explanations for the causes of health inequalities
  • Assess the role of the nurse in working for health equity

Syllabus

  • Defining health and wellbeing
  • A critique of the medical model of health
  • Lay perspectives on health
  • The social model of health and social determinants of health
  • A salutogenic approach to health
  • Health inequality and health inequity
  • Explanations of the causes of health inequalities

Issued on 3rd March 2023

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Free online course:

Public Health and Nursing: The Greatest Wealth is Health

Coventry University