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PU5022: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38


Course Overview

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.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Marijn de Bruin

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • MSc Health Psychology (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

- History of health psychology
- Epidemiology and health consequences of health behaviours
- Measurement of behaviour
- Theoretical determinants of health behaviour
- Behavioural intervention design
- Intervention implementation and evaluation
- Individual and environmental level behaviour change interventions
- Behaviour change techniques

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1 two hour written exam (50%) and continuous assessment (50%) [written report 40%, oral presentation 10%]

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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