Readers will learn about the nature of health, health education, health promotion and related concepts. This will help to understand the social, psychological and physical components of health.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Health
Chapter 2: Psychological Health
Chapter 3: Stress Management
Chapter 4: Relationships and Communication
Chapter 5: Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 6: Sexual Health
Chapter 7: Infectious diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's)
Chapter 8: Substance Use and Abuse
Chapter 9: Basic Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Chapter 10: Weight Management
Chapter 11: Physical Fitness
Chapter 12: Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer
Chapter 13: Environmental Health
Chapter 14: Health Care Choices

Global Health Governance is how we create an organized response to health at the global level. Each country has its own health system, but health issues are become international, as people travel, and goods and services (for example tobacco sales) are becoming increasingly globalised, and challenges such as climate change have a wide reach. WHO has an important guiding role in the global health architecture, but it has limited funding and mandate to establish and implement legally binding acts.

This is an assignment in which a student research a Health Science career.

In this lesson, students will learn how mental health fits in our modern society. We will discuss how mental health and mental illness are related to each other, yet different from each other. Students will also learn about the role mental health plays in our current society, as well as current issues and trends in the field.

This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.

As taught in Autumn Semester 2009

The 'Health Promotion' module is one of the core modules taught on the Masters in Public Health which is offered by the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at The University of Nottingham.

Suitable for study at: Masters level

Dr Puja R Myles, School of Community Health Sciences - Epidemiology and Public Health

Dr. Puja Myles is an Associate Professor of Health Protection and Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham. She trained as a dentist at Panjab University, India and worked as a dentist in India before completing her specialist training in Public Health in the East Midlands. She completed a doctorate in Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham. She is currently part of the Health Protection Research Group at Nottingham and her research is primarily in respiratory disease epidemiology. She is also interested in evaluation methods and is currently involved in some public health service evaluations.

The video below is from the main office of OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Authority in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2016. The video can be used to illustrate how such an unit is working; if you teach occupational Health.

When researchers have spent years on finding evidence for a solution to a health problem, it is not enough for this solution to reach people. Health policy, that is getting policy and decision makers on board to translate evidence into action must also take place. Learn more about it here.
Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview

Here you can find two web lectures dealing with the topic of health promotion. The first discussed the concept of prevention and the second continues with more comprehensive strategies that can be used in promotin good health. The lectures are sequential and should be used together.Here you can also find pdf-files with the presentation slides.

This presentation provides an introduction to migrant health and its importance in the global health context. We’ll look at the key concepts of migration and ethnicity and how they are related to health. Furthermore we’ll look at how barriers may arise in access to health care for migrants, and finally we’ll provide examples from a Scandinavian context on differences in health between migrants and ethnic Danes.

Introduces a comprehensive overview of wellness concepts including fitness, nutrition, stress, disease prevention, and various other lifestyle factors that improve the quality of life. Each student's health and fitness is individually evaluated through a series of tests measuring cardiovascular endurance, strength, body composition, flexibility, blood pressure, nutrition, stress levels and blood lipid and blood glucose.

Being able to ask important questions and discover their answers through critical thinking and utilization of available data and information are important and useful skills in health education, science education, and in life. This lesson begins that process with a focus on health topics, particularly substance use/misuse/abuse and mental health, however, the science and engineering practices identified in this lesson transcend into other science disciplines. This lesson focuses on the development of important questions and then analyzing/locating sources of information to help answer those questions.

Syllabus for an introductory course that explores the basic components of a healthy lifestyle including healthy choices in: lifestyle, behavior, nutrition, exercise, relationships, and environmental awareness. This course uses an open textbook, Introduction to Health, adapted by Kelly Falcone for Open SUNY.

This presentation provides an introduction and explores the trends in the five sexual and reproductive health priority areas over the last decades:
Maternal and newborn health, family planning, unsafe abortion, sexually transmitted infections and sexual health.

MHCC - HE 265

Short Description:
This openly licensed textbook explores the multidimensional aspects of health and wellness as they overlap the female experience. Reproductive anatomy and physiology (including pregnancy and childbirth), cancer risk, nutrition, fitness, gender and sexuality, self-care, and health ageing are introduced.

Long Description:
This project was funded by the MHCC Foundation OER Grant Program and published by MHCC Library Press. MARC record available at the end of the book.

Word Count: 44998

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No matter what your area of interest is, you need to know how to evaluate your subject, how to measure it. Global health is measured using something we call health indicators. To understand how a population in a country, or in a region, or even a part of a city is doing, you need to know its health indicators. How long do people live in this country? How many children die before they reach their fifth birthday in this city? What is the weight of children and adults in the northern part of the country? How many women die in childbirth in the country? Once you have looked at these numbers and compared them with other populations, you can make sense of the health situation of a population. In this lecture you will some basic health indicators, and also how the data is collected.
Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview

These resources are for enabling children to think critically about health claims and make well-informed choices. They include a combined comic and text book, an exercise book, and a teachers' guide. The resources have been tested in an experiment with over 10,000 children, which showed they improve children's ability to assess health claims. They have been translated to 12 languages.
The comic book is also available as a set of videos with professional audio narration.

This unit provides a discussion of public health origins and history, the differentiation from private health, and the significant value provided by public health. It also reviews important terminology and includes an examination of the general organization of public health agencies and the flow of data within public health.

This presentation provides an introduction to the innovative use of technology to improve maternal and child health in low and middle income countries. Two of the major challenges in relation to reproductive and child health is access to health services and the quality of services provided in the health system. In continuation of this we’ll look into how mobile phone interventions can strengthen access to and quality of life saving interventions particularly in the time surrounding the delivery when the woman and the newborns are most vulnerable.