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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

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Provider

OpenLearn
Pricing

Free Certificate
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Duration & workload

4 hours
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

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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.

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

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