Unit Code: PBH504

Unit Name: Introduction to Healthy Islands

Description: This is in response to the 2015 Pacific Health Minister’s meeting that confirmed about the Healthy Island vision that they believed that it has served the Pacific for the past two decades and have been applied to suit the contexts of different Pacific Islands. Contextual settings like Healthy Island, Healthy Province and Healthy Cities are supported at a lower level by healthy villages, healthy markets, healthy churches, healthy schools etc. The visions remains that once these elements are healthy, they will contribute to a healthy island/cities/province. Strategies used will incorporate the 7 Ds, the ABCD models etc., in order to arrive at the visions. The course will cover visitations to healthy settings around the greater Suva Area and people will be interviewed on challenges and successes of the settings.

Learning Target Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1: Describe the health promotion evolution and concepts. 2: Explain settings and the Healthy Island concept. 3: Discuss health promoting cities and its concepts. 4: Assess health promoting schools, communities and workplaces. 5: Examine health promotion in health care settings.

Prerequisite: NA

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2