Health Studies (Top-up)
Bachelor's degree
In Telford
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Telford
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Duration
1 Year
The aim of the course is to provide you with a wide variety of insights into what constitutes health and wellbeing such that you will be able to critically appraise health related research and policy. Within your workplace you will be enabled to demonstrate how this critical awareness of health can have a positive impact on improving and promoting people’s health. The course will provide you with the opportunity to gain a wider understanding of the impact of poor health on local, national and international economies and you will be digitally literate in order to help you access and interpret relevant data and information.
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About this course
By completion of this course you will:
Critically appraise health improvement research – and use the critical appraisal to make informed decisions about the rigour of research and its application to the development of health policies.
Demonstrate an effective level of awareness of yourself as a resource for improving and promoting health and achieving health gains through a variety of means.
2019 Entry
A relevant health professional award to diploma level, or the equivalent portfolio of 120 Level 5 credits
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
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Course programme
- This comprehensive programme of study will give you an in depth insight into, and an understanding of, health and healthcare provision from different perspectives including that of gender, culture and from a world-wide viewpoint.
- You will develop skills that will help you to retrieve, interpret and use data, information and evidence to underpin your understanding of health and its impact on people’s lives.
- Your previous views on health will be used as the starting point to examine and explore the meaning of health for individuals and communities in order to evaluate what health is in a variety of contexts.
- You will consider many issues relevant to health, including promoting healthy lifestyles, social determinants of health, health inequalities, global perspectives on health.
Health Studies (Top-up)