LLEK10298U Public Health and Nutrition
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.
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.
- Describe and explain concepts used in the Logical Framework
Approach.
-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.
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 15
- Lectures
- 30
- Preparation
- 71
- Project work
- 50
- Theory exercises
- 40
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 20 minutesDescription 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.
- Re-exam
- The re-exam will be like the ordinary exam
If the student has been active at an opponent seminar without submission and approval of a group report, a new individual report must be submitted and approved 2 weeks before signing up for re-examination.
If the student has not participated in the opponent's seminar during the course, the student must submit a written feed-back to other group reports and present these orally to the course responsable.
Criteria for exam assesment
Please see "Learning Outcome".
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LLEK10298U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
- A
- Course capacity
- A maximum of 65 students allowed. Students from the MSc in Human Nutrition have first priority as the course is compulsory.
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting departments
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports
- Department of Food and Resource Economics
Course responsibles
- Annemette Ljungdalh Nielsen
- Camilla Trab Damsgaard (3-6677674371687b76316e7831676e)