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EXS-10007 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 21 December 2024

EXS-10007 - Public Health Nutrition and Physical Activity
Coordinator: Dean Burt
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office:

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

The module introduces concepts of the roles for nutrition and physical activity as drivers for positive communities.
This module offers students the opportunity to built their literature searching and application knowledge, skills that are crucial to success within any degree programme.

Aims
The module aims to introduce students to the concepts of public health and common public goals and to discuss the role of physical activity and nutrition in maintaining positive public health. The students will use literature to understand and to discuss common public health goals.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify medical health risks in the context of key chronic health concerns/diseases (e.g. obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer): 1
Identify the concepts of public health evidence in relation to physical activity and nutrition: 1
Describe how the public¿s health is influenced by the social and physical environment in which people live and how this impacts on their sedentariness, physical inactivity, exercise, fitness and nutrition: 1
Discuss appropriate literature to support written work: 1

Study hours

Active learning includes:
~33 hours of teaching via classroom and seminars
~3 hours of tutorials
~20 hours of directed study
94 hours of independent study will be student led.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Literature Review weighted 100%
1500 word written essay


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 21 December 2024