Level 2 Award in Understanding Health Improvement
This award covers:
Importance of promoting health
- workplace
- community settings
2. Factors that:
- Facilitate/support health improvement
- Create barriers to health improvement
3. Principles of behaviour change and how to apply them
4. Handling confidential information
5. Programme evaluation methods
Developed in conjunction with the Department of Health (to support career progression of Health Trainers) this award has demonstrated its value and flexibly in a variety of settings; with health professionals, local government, local communities, prisons and offender units as well as the workplace. It may be used to facilitate health focussed partnerships across organisations and agencies.
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General Information
- Understanding Health Improvement for employers - a practical guide
- Qualification pathway for health improvement - Level 1, 2 and 3
Press and media coverage and related stories
- Local Government Executive magazine - June 2008
- Personnel Today, In focus: coaching the wellbeing champions - April 2008
- Corporate fitness and wellbeing today - corporate fitness ascending in the UK - April 2008
- Corporate fitness and wellbeing today - corporate fitness ascending in the UK - April 2008
- Dame Carol Black's review - March 2008
- Nursing Standard, career development: health champions - March 2008