This module aims to develop the student’s understanding of personalised and individualised nutrition as an approach to the prevention and management of functional imbalances and chronic disease.  Scientific research continues to emerge on the potentially devastating effects of inappropriate nutrition, environmental toxins and lifestyle factors on a wide range of issues relating to human health throughout life.  Nutrigenomics also links nutrition to the genetic expression of health and illness.  Increasingly scientific discovery unfolds a genetic basis to a range of chronic degenerative disease afflicting the Western world. Students will develop an understanding of complexity in health and explore nutritional intervention strategies to support optimal function and health aging while taking into account social, cultural and ethical factors influencing an individual’s health and wellbeing.
- Module Leader: Fiona Ambrose
The individual’s responsibility for taking charge of their own health is a growing concept as is the development of corporate and community health culture. This module aims to explore the changes in individual responsibility for health over the past century, at present and what the future might bring. In the context of individual responsibility for health the module will explore inequalities in health care provision and the ability of individuals to assume such responsibility for their health. Students will analyse data, theorise and evaluate cultural drivers and barriers to change as well as critically and reflexively review their own leadership ideas and business practices to inform the design of engaging, ethical and sustainable change management interventions across a range of healthcare business environments.
- Module Leader: Fiona Ambrose
- Module Leader: Karin Seidler
- Module Leader: David Titman