Public Health and Nursing: The Greatest Wealth is Health

Syllabus

• Week 1

  Health and wellbeing

  • Health as value

    This week we will think critically about the complex and contested nature of the terms "health" and "wellbeing" and the challenges and implications this may create for public health practice.

  • How should health be defined?

    整个历史上的“健康”一直是无尽辩论的主题。例如，在医学，心理学，社会学，政策，政治和人类学的学科中，它已被理论化和分析。

  • Models of health

    Now that you have explored the World Health Organisation definition of health, in this section we examine some professional models of, or approaches to defining, health.

  • Health and wellbeing

    In this section we shall think about the term wellbeing. Public health is concerned with improving health and wellbeing but how can wellbeing be defined?

  • End of the week

    In this section we review and reflect on what has been covered this week and revist the Big Question.

• Week 2

  Inequalities in health

  • Welcome

    The unequal distribution of health and wellbeing is an important concern for societies, governments and public health across the world and this week we will think about why they exist and what can be done to reduce them.

  • 卫生不平等与健康公平简介

    在本节中，我们将开始考虑健康不平等和健康公平的概念。

  • Explaining why health inequalities exist

    There is much research and numerous debate investigating explanations for the existence of health inequalities. There is no one answer for their existence and this makes reducing health inequalities a complex and challenging task.

  • 减少健康不平等

    Having considered a number of explanations for the existence of health inequalities we go on to look at how we might tackle them.

  • End of the week

    审查并反思本周所涵盖的内容，并找出下周将要了解的内容。