Course Catalogue

Nursing and Advanced Practice

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.

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.

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.