- The healthcare assistant's approach to health and quality of life;
- The foundations and the main theories of health promotion, the conceptual frameworks of reference for the approach to the person and the community;
- Definition of health, health education, disease prevention, health education, therapeutic education, health promotion;
- The determinants of health;
- International reference documents for health promotion;
- Lifestyles, empowerment and life skills and Peer education;
- Stress as a health risk factor;
- Transversal professional skills to support change;
- Theoretical reference models for health promotion interventions;
- From participatory methods for defining the need for a community to the main reference theories;
- Differences between pathogenic and salutogenic models and related patterns;
- The Precede - Proceed model for a community health diagnosis;
- Theoretical models for health education, basic elements and hints on active techniques for an educational intervention;
- Definition and characteristics of the group, status and roles, group models.