Childhood Obesity and HENRY
Virtual College
Summary
Overview
This course on Childhood Obesity and the HENRY (Healthy, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young) has been designed for Health practitioners and is made up of five learning objects: The HENRY approach and the obesity epidemic, Establishing healthy eating patterns, Addressing food, Being active and Parenting for a healthy lifestyle. The material within this module will give you a detailed and in-depth understanding of the HENRY programme and its promotion of ways in which adopting parenting and lifestyle strategies can help to combat the obesity epidemic amongst young children.
Description
Lesson Plan
- Introduction
- Session 1: The obesity epidemic and the Henry approach
- Session 2: Healthy Eating Patterns
- Session 3: Addressing food
- Session 4: Being Active
- Session 5: Parenting for a healthy lifestyle
- Session 6: Recommended reading and resources
Accreditation
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Certification
On completion of this course you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate.
Duration
Approximately 2 hours. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like.
Target Audience
Health practitioners, those working with young children especially in areas of child health, setting or nursery staff, parents and those with young families. Please be aware that this training content deals with a potentially disturbing subject matter and material and images used may be of a graphic nature. The module carries links to help lines and national support agencies that can be contacted should you feel the need to talk about the subject to someone other than your colleagues or manager.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
How it Works
What
This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material and may also print the notes you took during the training.
You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.
How
The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.
The lesson consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.
Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course
When
The course is self-paced so you decide how fast or slow the training goes. You can complete the course in stages revisiting the training at any time.
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Legal information
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