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HU Credits:
1
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Public Health - International Prog.
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Osnat Keidar
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed 10:00-11:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Osnat Keidar
Course/Module description:
Elective course in community health promotion for IMPH students
Course/Module aims:
• To gain knowledge and understanding of the settings for health approach and its importance in health promotion processes.
• To gain the knowledge and ability to integrate community models of health behavior into community interventions.
• To acquire understanding, knowledge and skills of working with communities in the process of improving their health.
• To acquire knowledge of models and approaches of community work for health promotion.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Understand and apply the settings for health approach in health promotion activities.
• Understand and apply different approaches, models and strategies of community health promotion and community work.
• Critically read scientific papers that deal with development and evaluation of settings for health and community health promotion
Attendance requirements(%):
Active participation in class
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, group discussions and group work, class and home exercise. In Korona time, distance learning
Course/Module Content:
• Social marketing
• Social advocacy
• Community building
• concept, principles and examples
• Ecological models of health behavior
• Planning Model- Precede-Proceed- implementation
• Diffusion of innovations
• Building coalitions
• Social resilience
• Culturally appropriate community programs
• Positive deviant inquiry
• Community-Based Participatory Health Research
• Community empowerment
Required Reading:
• Community Organization & community building for health, Edited by Minkler M, Rutgers University Press, 1999.
• Glanz K., Rimer K. B., Lewis F.M. (2008) Health behavior & health education: Theory research and practice. Jossey- Bass. 4th edition
• Dooris, M., Healthy settings: challenges to generating evidence of effectiveness. Health Promotion International, 2005. 21(1): p. 55-65
• Chaskin R J: BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY, A Definitional Framework and Case Studies from a Comprehensive Community Initiative. Urban Affairs Review 2001; 36; 291-323.
• Marsh, D.R., et al., The power of positive deviance. BMJ, 2004. 329(7475): p. 1177-9.
Additional Reading Material:
• Heaney CA, Israel BA: Social networks and social support, In: Glanz K et al (ed.) Health behavior and health education, theory, research and practice, Jossey-Bass, 2008, pp189-207.
• Letcher AS, Perlow KM: Community-Based Participatory Research Shows How a Community Initiative Creates Networks to Improve Well-Being. Am J Prev Med 2009;37:S292–S299
• Maguire B and Cartwright S: Assessing a community’s capacity to manage change: A resilience approach to social assessment, 2008, Australia
• Van Vlaenderen H and Neves D: Community development: building on contradiction. Community Development Journal 2011; 46 S1: i83–i95
• Simmons A, Reynolds R.C, Boyd Swinburn B: Defining community capacity building: Is it possible? Preventive Medicine 2011; 52:193–199
• Lapping, K., et al., The positive deviance approach: challenges and opportunities for the future. Food Nutr Bull, 2002. 23(4 Suppl): p. 130-7.
• Lohrmann, D.K., A Complementary Ecological Model of the Coordinated School Health program. Journal of School Health, 2010. 80(1): p. 1-9.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 100 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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