This free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. It also examines how non-lifestyle related factors – in particular social, economic, cultural and political dimensions – influence a person's health.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Understanding ‘lifestyles’
- 1 Understanding ‘lifestyles’
- 1.1 Further defining ‘lifestyles’
- 2 Quantitative research
- 2 Quantitative research
- 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index
- 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index
- 4 Weaknesses of the Body Mass Index
- 4 Weaknesses of the Body Mass Index
- 5 Lifestyles and choice
- 5 Lifestyles and choice
- 6 Lifestyles in context
- 6 Lifestyles in context
- 7 Qualitative research
- 7 Qualitative research
- 8 The scale of obesity as an issue
- 8 The scale of obesity as an issue
- 9 Improving understanding about what we eat
- 9 Improving understanding about what we eat
- 10 Encouraging behavioural change
- 10 Encouraging behavioural change
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
