Health Promotion and Health Improvement

Health promotion aims to promote the health and wellbeing of individuals and groups within the community and the wider population. It includes a wide spectrum of social and environmental practices and interventions that are directed at protecting individual’s health and improving their quality of life. This course is aimed at health and social care practitioners who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills in order to effectively incorporate health promotion activities into their role. Across the module you will cover a range of topics related to health promotion and health improvement including: the definitions of health promotion; communication and marketing of health promotion and interventions; health promotion approaches; behaviour change and theoretical frameworks for change across a range of health behaviours; ethical dilemmas around health promotion; impact evaluation of effective interventions; community development and principles of building community capacity; global contextualisation of health improvement; global challenges in health promotion and evaluation.

International students: £18,700

UK students: £740

UK/Home: £740

International: £18,700

21 September 2026

28 June 2026

• University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, United Kingdom