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About Health Promotion And Public Health Bsc (hons) in University of West London

Are you passionate about getting health messages out to wider society? Do you want to see large populations lead healthier, fuller lives? 

With this course you'll learn how to protect, promote, and improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities in the UK and abroad.

The knowledge, skills and experience you gain on this course will enable you to pursue a broad, non-clinical, public health career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Learn about the social, cultural, economic and political factors that affect health as well as identify health patterns and trends in the health and wellness of individuals, neighbourhoods and populations.

You will be able to empower individuals, families and societies to make healthy lifestyle changes through effective verbal, written, audio-visual, social media presentation and communication methods.

The University provides an excellent volunteering service with opportunities in public health related charities and not for profit organisations.

You can also develop wider skills such as taking part in organising and taking part in real-world health promotion such as a World AIDS day flash mob and a student-led health conference seminar.

This course includes Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training (usually delivered in Year 2). MECC is about taking every opportunity to ask, assist and advise people about their lifestyles, including:

• smoking
• alcohol
• physical activity
• healthy eating
• mental wellbeing

It will enable you to use evidence-based methods to empower and enable people to make the changes they choose. Following completion of the training you will receive a certificate.

In addition, you will enhance your leadership skills and ability to work as part of a team. 

Your new skills will help you to:

• work effectively with diverse groups involved in the promotion of public health
• deliver and evaluate innovative health promotion campaigns 
• influence the development of policy for healthy communities

You need to meet our English language requirement - a minimum of IELTS 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). 

Applicants with the following qualifications will be considered for entry on an undergraduate degree:

•    International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma (From a minimum 25 points depending on course)
•    British/ International A Levels (From a minimum 112 UCAS tariff points depending on course)
•    Indian Standard 12/HSC (minimum average of 55% depending on exam board)
•    Second and final year entry on a bachelor's degree may be available for those with a Higher National Diploma (HND) from the UK with a merit profile
•    A recognised foundation course

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