Bielefeld School of Public Health
Health behaviour and health conditions
The "Health Behaviour and Health Conditions" profile focuses on individual, social, economic, political and ecological factors influencing health. After completing this profile, you will be able to analyse complex health conditions, identify challenges and needs and develop solutions.
All profiles in the Bachelor's degree programme in Public Health are interdisciplinary. This means that, as part of this profile, you will become familiar with different scientific perspectives and approaches to a wide range of issues relating to health behaviour and health conditions.
This includes approaches and theories on social and health inequality, health promotion, prevention and health reporting, as well as various methodological approaches to empirical research into health-related inequality.
In the profile, you can choose seminars and projects from three subject areas (modules):
- Prevention and health promotion
- Social and health inequality
- Health reporting and health monitoring
The aim is to enable you to analyse the interactions between health behaviour and health conditions at various levels, to identify challenges and needs and to develop solutions.
This will qualify you for fields of work, e.g. in the (public) health system such as:
- Public health service,
- NGOs,
- occupational health management,
- Health promotion and prevention in co-operation with health service providers, educational institutions and government authorities
- Welfare organisations,
- health insurance companies
You will learn
- how individual, social, cultural, socio-economic and political factors influence health;
- how health promotion and prevention measures are systematically planned, implemented and evaluated;
- analyse and evaluate political strategies and measures to reduce health inequalities;
- prepare and analyse health data of the population or population groups and present the results in a structured and target group-specific manner.