LLEK10298U Public Health and Nutrition

Volume 2013/2014
Education
MSc Programme in Human Nutrition.
Content
The course will focus on describing, exemplifying, discussing and applying basic concepts, strategies and theories used in public health, epidemiology and planning of health interventions. National and/or international professionals in health promotion and preventive nutrition will introduce the students to the organisations they represent, and exemplify their work through actual cases.
Learning Outcome

The main objective of the course is to provide the students with the ability to explain, discuss, and exemplify central concepts, theories, strategies and the role of stakeholders in public health in relation to nutrition, and to design and critically reflect on a public health intervention based on the Logical Framework Approach. A central theme in the course is social inequality in health.

Knowledge:
- Explain and exemplify basic concepts, theories and strategies in public health science, with special focus on nutrition and health.

- Describe and explain processes behind the planning of public health interventions in the field of nutrition.
- Identify and discuss central public and private stakeholders within nutrition and demonstrate overview of their responsibilities.

Skills:
- Critically choose and apply preventive strategy theories and methods in the planning of a public health intervention; hereunder demonstrate the ability to conduct a needs analysis, define goals, identify determinants for the health behavior and outcomes of the target group, and choose relevant scientific methods for evaluating the intervention.
- Reflect on and discuss interests related to public health policies of relevance to nutrition and apply them to unfamiliar cases.

Competences:
- Develop and design a scientifically founded health-promoting intervention by use of the planning model “Logical Framework Approach”, in a self-structured multi-disciplinary group work.

Course literature will be announced at study start on the course’s Absalon page. Textbook and/or course compendium for sale at Academic Books.
Other relevant course material will be made available during the course
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The course will be a combination of lectures, group work, seminars and exercises. The course includes lectures on “The Logical Framework Approach”, a theory and planning model behind nutrition interventions. In groups, the students will plan a public health intervention based on this model, and write a group report.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Exam
  • 15
  • Lectures
  • 30
  • Preparation
  • 71
  • Project work
  • 50
  • Theory exercises
  • 40
  • Total
  • 206
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral examination, 20 minutes
Description of Examination: Oral examination in the curriculum and in the group report (synopsis report where students in groups have designed a public health intervention).
Exam registration requirements
Submission and approval of the group report and oral presentation of the group report at an opponent's seminar during the course.
Aid
Only certain aids allowed
The student's own written group report with personal notes is allowed, but no other curricular material or notes.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal grading. More assessors.
Re-exam
If 10 or fewer register for the reexamination the examination form will be oral.
Criteria for exam assesment
Please see "Learning Outcome".