DU Prevention and Health Promotion

The aims of this course are to enable students to acquire a basic common methodology for improving project design and management practices, and to encourage meetings and exchanges between professionals. The aim is to provide those involved with the keys to help them implement the recommendations of national and regional health strategies, but also to respond to personal and professional questions on public health issues, and to develop projects that are consistent with contemporary challenges.

• Define and understand the determinants of health and their interrelationships.
• Identifying and pinpointing the mechanisms and issues at stake in an intercultural relationship.
• To enable participants to acquire a methodology for improving their practices in setting up and running health promotion projects:
  • Be familiar with the concepts of health promotion so that you can apply them in your professional practice
  • Identifying and mobilising partners
  • Mastering the stages of a health education initiative
  • Encouraging meetings and exchanges between operators in the field

Access to the DU 

This training course is aimed at professionals in the public service, local authorities, social services, public health, health and the environment, and/or members and volunteers of associations, and/or elected representatives, who wish to implement health prevention and promotion projects.

Conditions of admission

Applications for enrolment will be examined and approved by the Teaching Committee, made up of :

• Community stakeholders
• Management and administrative staff
• All professionals in the fields of education, social work, medical-social care, public health, public services, the environment, etc.

Registration

Instructions concerning the application procedure are posted on the Université de Guyane website during the annual admissions campaign. Applications and administrative registration are made online.

Sectors of activity

In the fields of health promotion, teaching, healthcare, social work, community work, the environment or any sector of activity implementing preventive and/or health education initiatives.