PSTR 208 : HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
Credits:
2
This course seeks to develop an understanding of the theory of health promotion and disease prevention. It focuses on strategies including health education which aims at disease prevention, promotion of healthy lifestyles and behaviour change. The following areas will be covered:
Health Promotion:
- Educational theories and models of health behaviour related to patient learning
- Developments of physiotherapy health promotion programmes
- Ethics of health promotion
- Health promotion programmes in Ghana.
- Role of the physiotherapist and the multidisciplinary team in health education and health promotion
- Preparation of a physiotherapy related health education material for use in a health education context
- Principles of programme management, including assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation
Disease Prevention:
- Epidemiology – Definition, objectives and applications.
- Types of epidemiological studies.
- Dynamics of disease transmission – modes of transmission, natural history of disease, levels of disease prevention, definitions (endemic, epidemic, zoonotic, carrier, herd immunity, quarantine, isolation, active immunity, passive immunity, surveillance),
- Principles of disease control, Outbreak investigation.
- Measures of morbidity and mortality (incidence, prevalence, rates).
- Epidemiological methods, screening.