7 modules · 20 lessons
Build the basics every learner needs: what health is, how to find and trust health information, and how to use the Irish healthcare system confidently. By the end of this module, you will have assessed your own health, evaluated a real piece of health information, and mapped out the healthcare team and entitlements available to you.
| Health Literacy: Finding and Understanding Health Information | ||
| Managing Your Healthcare: Using Health Services Confidently |
Mental health is part of everybody's health. This module helps you understand what mental health is, recognise the signs of stress, anxiety and low mood, and build practical tools for managing your mind, including better sleep. Crisis supports are signposted throughout.
| Mental Health Fundamentals: Understanding Your Mind | ||
| Managing Stress, Anxiety and Low Mood | ||
| Sleep, Rest and Recovery: Essential for Health |
Movement is one of the most powerful things you can do for your health at any age. This module helps you understand the benefits, work out how much you need, build an active lifestyle that fits your circumstances, and adapt activity to your life stage and any health conditions.
| Why Movement Matters: Benefits of Physical Activity | ||
| Getting Started: Building an Active Lifestyle | ||
| Staying Active Across Life Stages |
What you eat shapes how you feel today and your health long term. This module covers nutrition fundamentals, builds practical habits around planning, shopping and cooking, and adapts food choices to your individual circumstances and any health needs.
| Food Fundamentals: Understanding Nutrition | ||
| Building Healthy Eating Habits: Practical Strategies | ||
| Special Situations: Nutrition for Different Needs |
Chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes and arthritis are common, but much can be done to prevent or manage them. This module helps you understand the main chronic diseases, assess your own risk, and apply lifestyle and medication strategies whether you are preventing disease or already living with one.
| Understanding Chronic Diseases: Prevention Focus | ||
| Living Well with Chronic Conditions | ||
| Healthy Behaviours: Activity, Diet and Medication for Disease Management |
These topics affect health across the life course but are often hard to talk about. This module uses a non-judgemental approach to alcohol, smoking and sexual health, with clear Irish supports signposted throughout, including the HSE Drug and Alcohol helpline, Quit.ie and sexual health services.
| Alcohol: Understanding, Reducing and Health | ||
| Smoking: Understanding, Reducing and Quitting | ||
| Sexual Health: Relationships, Contraception and STI Prevention |
Ageing well is about more than avoiding illness: it is about staying strong, connected, independent and clear about what matters to you. This module covers normal ageing, maintaining independence at home, and planning for later life including advance care planning, legal documents and legacy.
| Understanding Ageing: Normal Changes and Health Optimisation | ||
| Maintaining Independence: Active, Nourished and Sharp | ||
| Life Planning: End of Life and Legacy |
Build the basics every learner needs: what health is, how to find and trust health information, and how to use the Irish healthcare system confidently. By the end of this module, you will have assessed your own health, evaluated a real piece of health information, and mapped out the healthcare team and entitlements available to you.
| Health Literacy: Finding and Understanding Health Information | ||
| Managing Your Healthcare: Using Health Services Confidently |
Mental health is part of everybody's health. This module helps you understand what mental health is, recognise the signs of stress, anxiety and low mood, and build practical tools for managing your mind, including better sleep. Crisis supports are signposted throughout.
| Mental Health Fundamentals: Understanding Your Mind | ||
| Managing Stress, Anxiety and Low Mood | ||
| Sleep, Rest and Recovery: Essential for Health |
Movement is one of the most powerful things you can do for your health at any age. This module helps you understand the benefits, work out how much you need, build an active lifestyle that fits your circumstances, and adapt activity to your life stage and any health conditions.
| Why Movement Matters: Benefits of Physical Activity | ||
| Getting Started: Building an Active Lifestyle | ||
| Staying Active Across Life Stages |
What you eat shapes how you feel today and your health long term. This module covers nutrition fundamentals, builds practical habits around planning, shopping and cooking, and adapts food choices to your individual circumstances and any health needs.
| Food Fundamentals: Understanding Nutrition | ||
| Building Healthy Eating Habits: Practical Strategies | ||
| Special Situations: Nutrition for Different Needs |
Chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes and arthritis are common, but much can be done to prevent or manage them. This module helps you understand the main chronic diseases, assess your own risk, and apply lifestyle and medication strategies whether you are preventing disease or already living with one.
| Understanding Chronic Diseases: Prevention Focus | ||
| Living Well with Chronic Conditions | ||
| Healthy Behaviours: Activity, Diet and Medication for Disease Management |
These topics affect health across the life course but are often hard to talk about. This module uses a non-judgemental approach to alcohol, smoking and sexual health, with clear Irish supports signposted throughout, including the HSE Drug and Alcohol helpline, Quit.ie and sexual health services.
| Alcohol: Understanding, Reducing and Health | ||
| Smoking: Understanding, Reducing and Quitting | ||
| Sexual Health: Relationships, Contraception and STI Prevention |
Ageing well is about more than avoiding illness: it is about staying strong, connected, independent and clear about what matters to you. This module covers normal ageing, maintaining independence at home, and planning for later life including advance care planning, legal documents and legacy.
| Understanding Ageing: Normal Changes and Health Optimisation | ||
| Maintaining Independence: Active, Nourished and Sharp | ||
| Life Planning: End of Life and Legacy |
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