Courses Health: Is your lifestyle really to blame?

Health: Is your lifestyle really to blame?

This free Open Learn course explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. 

Cost: £0.00 Free for all users

1 sessions • Self paced course

Course type: self-paced

Level: Beginner

Host: Open Learn

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1. Health: Is your lifestyle really to blame?
"Self-paced"


This free course with Open Learn explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. It also examines how non-lifestyle related factors, in particular social, economic, cultural and political dimensions, influence a person's health.


After studying this course, you should be able to:


  • outline to what extent a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing
  • describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic, cultural and political) factors influence a person's health
  • identify what government interventions have been developed to tackle obesity

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