Resource approaches to health and wellbeing

This course unit introduces and explores various approaches to the understanding of health and wellbeing, including the definition of health and the development of health. While including health definitions from the biomedical field, the course is grounded in the field of health promotion and has a main focus on positive, holistic and resource approaches to health.

The students will learn to critically appraise various approaches to health. Students will also learn to analyse consequences of various approaches to health in diverse contexts.

On completion of this course the students should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge:

The student

• has advanced knowledge of various definitions of health and wellbeing in a diverse context.
• has in-depth knowledge of various theories and conceptual frameworks with a resource perspective, focussing on the development of health versus the prevention of disease.
• has thorough understanding of approaches to applying resource perspectives to health in practice.

Skills:

The student

• can contrast and critically appraise various approaches to health definition and health development
• can critically analyse the consequences of applying given health understandings to particular situations.
• can on a theoretical basis, choose a relevant approach to health for various situations met in practice.
• can analyse cases from a resource perspective.

General competence:

The student

• can coherently and critically communicate ideas concerning health and wellbeing.
• can analyse and apply theories of knowledge relevant for health and wellbeing as an academic field