If you'd like to find out more about health issues, we've selected  a range of courses, covering a broad range of subjects which you may find of interest. Take a look at the selection of Open University courses below.

Understanding Health (Y158)
This course focuses on the health of individuals, families, localities and societies. It looks at how much people influence their own health, and how much it is influenced by our families, the places we live and wider society. It looks at what we can do as individuals to maintain our health, as well as looking at how the medical profession and politicians intervene to try to keep us healthy.

Understanding Human Nutrition (SK183)
Are we really what we eat? What is the link between food and our health and well-being? This course will provide you with information about the components of the human diet, and how food is processed in the body. It enables you to apply this information to understand the links between nutrition and health for people of all ages and a range of lifestyles.

Understanding Health and Social Care (K100)
This course offers a broad practical introduction to health and social care, whether you are engaged in supporting, nursing or caring for others, receive services yourself, or simply have a general interest.

Health and Disease (U205)
This multidisciplinary course should appeal to anyone who has a broad professional or lay interest in the issues that influence health and disease in the UK and elsewhere.

Human Biology (SK277)
This course presents human biology in a way that connects it directly with health and disease. It starts with the concept of a healthy body and explores the mechanisms that enable it to maintain its integrity.

Infectious Diseases (S320) 
Infectious disease affects all our lives to varying degrees, and is a topic that often makes front-page news: ‘More pupils hit by TB, AIDS, a global crisis, ‘Hospital infections kill 5000 people a year’, and so on. The course approaches infectious disease from several perspectives and explores the underlying biology, epidemiology, ecology, and evolution of pathogens in relation to the immune defences of their human hosts.

Promoting Health: Skills, Perspectives and Practice (K301)
This course combines critical review, evaluation of good practice and encouragement to innovate, to extend the debate about promoting health.

Content last updated: 15/08/2005

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