| Summary: | E-learning for the Health Agents Programme in Europe (eHAP) is a collaboration between 5 European countries: Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Portugal. The project was funded by the Life Long Learning Programme Leonardo da Vinci. In Europe today, six out of seven risk factors for premature deaths are related to how we eat, drink and exercise. Healthy diet and regular physical activity are important factors for good health. The main goal of the eHAP programme is to increase competences related to health and nutrition in health promotion among the broad workforce promoting health in one way or another across Europe, by using the existing knowledge and study materials from the participating countries. The target group consisted of people who finished their education approximately 10-20 years ago, who promote health in their workplace, i.e. in the educational system, catering and the primary health care sector. The development and design of the curriculum presented in this thesis was built on the findings of a modified Delphi study that was conducted by focus group interviews and two rounds of online questionnaires. The main goal was to evaluate one of five learning modules of the curriculum with regard to distance learning and information communication technology (ICT) which is a common ground for all the five modules. In the evaluation of the module, both on qualitative and quantative research was relied on. Findings from the Delphi study narrowed suggestions down to seven core competencies, and experts within the workforce felt the strongest need for continuing education related to nutrition, health and health promotion rather than ICT skills. Evaluation of the pilot module showed general satisfaction and the study material was thought to contribute to added knowledge, skills and competencies within the heterogeneous health promotion workforce. The importance of ICT skills for further development in their work was also generally accepted. Projects like eHAP show that online continuing education which allows ...
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