Quarter 4 2006

I have spent the last 3 months doing a Health Trainers' course in which we covered the following three units:
1. HEALTH
This included the following topics
- Determinants of Health
- Inequalities in Health
- Anti-discriminatory principles
- Models of Health
  1. Medical
  2. Community
  3. Behaviour
  4. Educational
  5. Scio economic

2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Principles
- Understanding communities
- Working in partnerships

3. HEALTH BEHAVIOURS
- Process of behaviour change
- One to one communication
- Dealing with setbacks

While on the course we had speakers from a whole range of organisations who spoke to us about the following, and many other topics:
  • Sexual Health
  • Alcohol and Drugs
  • Beep
  • Health wise
  • Smoking
  • Healthy eating

It has been exhausting but well worthwhile because at the end of the Health Apprenticeship Project in March, I will then be working for Bradford and District teaching PCT as a paid Health Trainer. I was the first Apprentice to officially get another job and I was even featured in the Keighley News. I was called 'The trailblazer'!!!!