Lifestyle, Environment and Health
Course code
KTM6023.LT
old course code
KTM6023
Course title in Estonian
Eluviis, keskkond ja tervis
Course title in English
Lifestyle, Environment and Health
ECTS credits
3.0
Assessment form
assessment
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The objective is to rise an understanding about how life style and environment affects human health and opposite. Their interconnectedness. To teach how to reduce most common health risks and develop positive health behaviour.
Brief description of the course
Life style, environment, heritage and medicine: approccimate % in overall human health.
Risk factors of so called life style illnesses like heart disease for example.
Health testing. Life expectancy. Health trends in Estonia and in abroad.
Healthy nutriotion. Choosing healthy diet. Saturated fats, refined sugar and sodium, their role in life style ilnesses. Healthy norms, balanced nutrition. Food pyramide.
Prevention of anorexia. Role of diets.
Active sport activities: how they affect health. Testing fitnesse. Aerobic work and prevention of heart disease. Aerobic sport activities: how to choose. Sport in teenage age.
Life style and environment education in schools: methodology.
Decision making, responsibility and environment. School environmental projects: examples.
Global environmental problems and human behaviour: complexity.
Risk factors of so called life style illnesses like heart disease for example.
Health testing. Life expectancy. Health trends in Estonia and in abroad.
Healthy nutriotion. Choosing healthy diet. Saturated fats, refined sugar and sodium, their role in life style ilnesses. Healthy norms, balanced nutrition. Food pyramide.
Prevention of anorexia. Role of diets.
Active sport activities: how they affect health. Testing fitnesse. Aerobic work and prevention of heart disease. Aerobic sport activities: how to choose. Sport in teenage age.
Life style and environment education in schools: methodology.
Decision making, responsibility and environment. School environmental projects: examples.
Global environmental problems and human behaviour: complexity.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
Arvestus .Hinnatakse teadmisi ja nende rakendamise oskust
Arvestus .Hinnatakse teadmisi ja nende rakendamise oskust
Teacher
professor R.Vokk; lektor Maie Alas
Prerequisite course 1
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