LLEK10298U Public Health and Nutrition

Volume 2014/2015
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. Focus will mainly be on Denmark and other Western societies, and important stakeholders will be presented 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 role and 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 participation 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.
- Evaluate strengths and weaknesses related to strategies and models used in public health.

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.
Critically evaluate and discuss models and theories used in public health.

Course literature will be announced at study start on the course’s Absalon page. Course compendium and/or textbook will be for sale at Academic Books. Other relevant course material will be made available during the course.

LLEK10204 Thematic course: Human Nutrition or similar knowledge, skills and compentences
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 active participation 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 and one page of personal notes for a short presentation is allowed, but no other curricular material or notes.
 

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal grading. More assessors.
Criteria for exam assesment

Please see "Learning Outcome".