Starting with the client: New approaches to effective health promotion 14 - 16 April 2009 Wageningen, The Netherlands Organised by The Graduate School VLAG and Mansholt Graduate School, in cooperation with the Dutch Dairy Association (NZO)
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Background
During the last decades, awareness among scientists, politicians, health professionals and -educators of the importance of nutrition for health rapidly increased. Communication on nutrition is not limited to reports on policy development and results of scientific research but is also widely available through popular media. The Dutch Health Council stressed the urgent need for improvement of the Dutch diet and other lifestyle factors to prevent chronic diseases. The Dutch diet still contains too much (saturated) fat and intake of fruit and vegetables is below recommended levels. Of special interest is the growing number of people with overweight and severe overweight (obesity) in all gender-age classes, a serious health threat faced in many countries. In the Netherlands, up to 12 percent of young children and more than 40 percent of adults has overweight or obesity. Communication on this health problem has grown rapidly. The content of many reports and discussions on guidelines for policy development, suggestions for legislation and development of effective health interventions have reached beyond scientific journals into newspapers, magazines, TV-programmes and the Internet. Scientists have called the increasing number of people with overweight the largest nutrition-related problem of the Western world. Many questions on how to effectively move people to healthier food choice are still unanswered.
This master class will focus on new approaches to effective health promotion, starting with the client, reflecting on the salutogenic approach to health and applying this to health behaviour. We need evidence-based practice in our nutrition and health promotion, and therefore we need practice-based research. In this master class, the everyday perspective towards personalized nutrition advice will be illustrated on the basis of research results. This learns us what kind of interventions are needed to effectively influence life style, social and physical environmental factors, and especially the nutrition pattern of consumers to increase health gain. As a special case, questions and possible solutions on nutrition communication for cancer survivors will be dealt with. Last but not least, "starting with the client "will be further elaborated on the basis of research results. A workshop on client perspectives in your own work will then follow.
Target group
The master class is at postgraduate level and aims at nutritionists, physicians, nutrition educators, health promoters, health policy makers and scientists, interested in nutrition communication. The master class may be of specific use for PhD students working in this field.
Provisional programme
Course coordinators
Other faculty
Date & duration
The course will be held from 14 April (start 16.00h) - 16 April 2009 (end 14.00h).
Study load
The study load of this course is 0.6 ECTS credits.
Language
The course is conducted in English.
Location & accommodation
Lectures and demonstrations will be given at Conference Centre Hof van Wageningen. A number of hotel rooms have been blocked at the Conference Centre for course participants, but only until 12 March 2009. Accommodation costs are € 75 (single room; incl. breakfast, excl. Tax) and € 98.50 (double room; incl. breakfast, excl. Tax) per night. Hotel reservation is handled by the conference centre, see www.wicc.nl. Please mention booking code nutcom09.
Contact information
For more information please contact the course coordinator
Mrs. Yvonne Smolders
The Graduate School VLAG
P.O. Box 8129
6700 EV Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: + 31.317.485108
Telefax: +31.317.483342
E-mail: Yvonne.Smolders@wur.nl
Please register by completing the the registration form. The final registration date is 20 March 2009. The course fee of € 550 includes course materials, coffee/tea during breaks, lunches and one course dinner. For PhD students a reduced course fee of € 250 will be applied. For PhD students affiliated with VLAG/MG3S the course fee is sponsored by the Dutch Dairy Association. The number of participants is limited to 30. Applicants will be notified on acceptance of their registration before 15 March 2009 and will receive instructions for payment and further information.
Cancellations may be made free of charge until 15 March 2009. After this date the charge will be 25% of the fee paid or due. Substitutions can be made at any time.
Financial support of the Dutch Dairy Association (NZO) is gratefully acknowledged.
