Topics or principles: Health promotion under other names

Abstract

This chapter explores the possibilities of how curricula can achieve the goal of enabling students to gain basic knowledge and skills for promoting health, without having had exposure to explicitly defined health promotion content. Health promotion is eclectic, drawing on many research and practice paradigms, with interventions being based on a synthesis of evidence and skills. Modifiable determinants of health and disease may be acted upon as follows: medical and pharmacological intervention, reference to implementation of policy and screening others also likely to be at risk. The term behavioural science is far reaching and may include health promotion, explicitly or implicitly. Human righ..