Health Promotion and Disease PreventionSemester Course

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Semester Course
Major Discipline(s)
Pre-Medicine / Health Science, Public Health
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

This course addresses some of the very core questions of public health science such as how to prevent people from becoming ill and how to promote good health. Through case studies of major public health challenges in Denmark, familiarize yourself with a number of theories and methods for health promotion and prevention targeting some of the main determinants of health such as socioeconomic, structural, and individual factors.

Related Discipline(s)

This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):
Sociology

Faculty

Tine Poulsen

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

PhD, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (University of Copenhagen, 2013); M.Sc. and B.Sc Public Health (University of Copenhagen 2004/2002). Project manager (Roskilde Hospital, Region Sjælland 2013-15), Consultant (Municipality of Gladsaxe, 2002-2007). With DIS since 2016.

S&H Tine Poulsen