PU5022: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE (2014-2015)

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of how behaviours (e.g. smoking, diet, medication adherence, etc) can protect, promote, risk or damage health; the key drivers of (un)healthy behaviours; and techniques to change health behaviours. Week by week, the course will take students through the steps involved in designing and implementing a high quality, theory- and evidence-based health behaviour change intervention. Students will work through multiple case studies, identifying questions and problems, drawing on relevant literature and developing (as a group) appropriate strategies for intervention in a range of contexts.