Basic Principles of Health Promotion course for Dietitians

This session provides foundational principles for promoting health and explores health promotion models and approaches that aim to enhance health. The challenges of behaviour change and the healthcare provider’s role forms an integral part of this session.

Learning objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Identify foundation principles that assist in ensuring that health promotion messages are successful
• Make sound judgements regarding appropriate health promotion approaches that aim to enhance health
• Recognise factors that impact positively and negatively on behaviour change

This session will look at the foundations of health promotion, describe different approaches to, and models of, health promotion and explore the factors that have an impact on an individual’s personal health decisions.