Health and Wellbeing

University College Cork

Overview

This Health and Wellbeing programme from University College Cork is designed to allow you to explore the evidence base underpinning the development and implementation of effective interventions and policies aimed at sustainable improvements in health and wellbeing, including in diverse organisational settings.

On successful completion of this programme, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of perspectives on the conceptualisation and measurement of health and wellbeing in a variety of settings.

• Critically examine the understanding of resilience and well-being in the context of your own professional practice.

• Demonstrate an understanding of lifespan approaches toward the study of resilience and individual wellbeing.

• Summarise the basic principles of aerobic and anaerobic fitness and their relationship with health and disease.

• Identify the issues that diverse organisations are facing in relation to stress management and health and wellbeing promotion.

• Design and prepare a feasible and evidence-based workplace health promotion initiative to include an implementation and evaluation plan.