Module GW4200-KP07

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

7

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, compulsory, Theories and methods of health care
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, compulsory, Theories and methods of health care

Classes and lectures:

• Scientific Work in the Health Sciences (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Social Medicine (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Health Promotion and Prevention (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 75 hours in-classroom work
• 135 hours private studies and exercises

Contents of teaching:

• Explanatory models for health and disease
• Lay concepts of health and disease
• Social determinants of health and illness
• Interrelations between migration, poverty, work, and health
• Gender-sensitive perspectives on health and healthcare
• Health over the life course and disease coping strategies.
• Connections between chronic diseases and social living conditions
• Health literacy and self-management of chronic diseases and dysfunctions
• Media construction of health, health education, and strengthening of health literacy
• Enabling health – models and approaches to health promotion and disease prevention
• Strategies for health promotion in communities
• Support for socially disadvantaged groups
• Methods of systematic literature research (especially Medline via PudMed), introduction to different literature databases

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will be able to describe different social science explanatory models as well as lay concepts of health and disease.
• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will be able to reflect on and critically analyze the sociocultural, economic, and ecological causes and contexts of health and disease and their unequal distribution in society.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: Students will be able to explain and analyze specific health risk constellations in individual cases and populations and the conditions under which socially unequal health opportunities arise over the life course.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: Students are able to critically analyze concrete approaches to health promotion and prevention. They are capable of identifying measures for health-promoting living environments and developing targeted support strategies for socially disadvantaged groups.
• Communication and cooperation: Students are able to bring their own perspectives and competencies into interprofessional exchange and group processes in a goal-oriented, constructive and solution-oriented manner.
• Scientific self-conception / professionalism: Students reflect on their own understanding of health and illness against the background of social science theories and models. They understand health promotion and prevention as a profession-related and interprofessional field of action.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to carry out the steps of a systematic literature review and identify relevant sources for a research question.

Grading through:

• written homework

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Röse

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Institute of Family Medicine
• Institute of Health Sciences
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Röse
• Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Soz. Katja Götz
• Cornelia Heinze, M.Sc.
• Prof. Annette Baumgärtner, PhD
• M.A. Annika Sternberg
• Julia Peper, M.Sc.

Literature:

• Hurrelmann K, Richter M : Gesundheits- und Medizinsoziologie. Eine Einführung in sozialwissenschaftliche Gesundheitsforschung. Weinheim, München: Beltz Juventa, 2013
• Hurrelmann K, Richert M, Klotz T, Stock S : Referenzwerk Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Bern Hogrefe, 2018
• Franke A : Modelle von Gesundheit und Krankheit. Bern: Huber, 2012
• Richter M, Hurrelmann, K : Soziologie von Gesundheit und Krankheit. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

30.09.2025