HL30555: Health technologies
[Page last updated: 19 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 7.5 [equivalent to 15 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 75%, CWRI 25% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Report (CWRI 25%)
- Essay (CWES 75%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take HL20535 AND take HL20540
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Discuss relevant research techniques across the health and exercise science sub-disciplines in the context of information communication and other health technologies
- Evaluate the use of health technologies to address health and exercise science challenges
- Discuss the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the application and evaluation of health technologies
- Assess how technologies are currently used in healthcare and behavioural settings, and synthesise and interpret information about their effectiveness and utility in an applied context
- Use information and health technologies to evaluate health and communicate findings to a variety of audience
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| Aims: | To provide students with a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of applications of various health technologies, through the history of their development and their role in facilitating, promoting, or supporting health and healthy behaviours.
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| Content: | - Definitions, types and history of medical and commercial technologies
- Current applications of e- and m-health technologies and other innovations from individuals to practice to policy
- Differing perspectives on the use of health technologies (i.e. through the eyes of the health and exercise sub-disciplines).
- Rationale/justification/context for the uptake of health technologies
- Principles of Health Technology Assessment and how to evaluate immerging health technologies
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| Course availability: |
HL30555 is Optional (DEU) on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 3)
- UHHL-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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