DU Prevention and Health Promotion

• 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.

• EU1 Humanities and social sciences - 20 hours
• EU2 Cultural diversity in French Guyana: intercultural approach - 10 hours
• UE3 Health promotion and public policy - 22 hours
• UE4 Knowledge of the care and health sector - 13 hours
• EU5 Project methodology, posture, techniques and tools - 17 hours
• EU6 Exchanges of practice on project-related themes - 14 hours
• UE7 Writing - 24 hours

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.