Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Nursing and Advanced Practice
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
4004PM-JAN-CTY
Aims
To develop understanding of the impact of health and illness on individual and
population health.
To develop awareness of how social, ethnic, gender and cultural differences
influence health and illness.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify models of health and illness.
2.
Outline the role of psychological and social factors that influence individuals
health.
3.
Discuss the principles of patient-centred holistic care of vulnerable patients.
4.
Examine key concepts in relation to patterns of health and illness in relation to the
individual and population groups.
5.
Explore how health and social policy shape life circumstances of different
population groups.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Models of health and illness
Key psychological and sociological theories
Mental health
Diversity and difference
Deprivation and social inclusion/exclusion
Health measurements
Epidemiology
Epidemics and pandemics
Public health issues
Equity and social inequality in health
Introduction to social policy
Gender and sexuality in relation to health
Ethnicity and diversity
Health and social policies
Module Overview:
The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the impact of health and illness on individual and population health. You will develop an awareness of how social, ethnic, gender and cultural differences influence health and illness.
The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the impact of health and illness on individual and population health. You will develop an awareness of how social, ethnic, gender and cultural differences influence health and illness.
Additional Information:This course will encourage students to broaden their knowledge of the concepts of health and illness by considering how these affect the patient as an individual and as part of a larger population within society. The course will begin with the perspective of the individual and progress to consider the many facets of public health. Models of health and illness will be studied to encourage the students to put their clinical practice within a broader framework, and understand how patients are considered by health professionals and the general public. Aspects of mental health will be introduced alongside the fundamentals of human psychology, and diversity and difference will be studied with regard to the patient. The sociological implications of health and illness will be examined, and the determinants of health which will raise the issues of inequality, difference and disadvantage. The patient experience will be focused upon to help the student understand what it is really like to be unwell or injured in the twenty-first century. An introduction to epidemiology will progress the student's journey through the course, as the individual focus will broaden to encompass the population perspective, and specific patterns of ill health and disease. Concepts of public health will be explored in addition to studying how social, ethnic, gender and cultural differences impact upon and influence population health outcomes. This course looks at health and illness through a wide lens and it will enable the student to appreciate and understand the broader context in which the patient sits.