It is the business of health promotion and all health care practitioners to influence the status quo towards promoting health. This course provides an overview of social aspects of health and foundations in health promotion. The course will enable you to examine contemporary social and cultural perspectives on health, healthcare and on people’s everyday lived experience of health & illness. The course commences with analysis of theories, principles and strategies of influence for change, focussing on the individual. The course progresses to exploring the role of health promotion in addressing a range of contemporary public health problems at the community and national level. The course will include an examination of the role of sport in health promotion.