Expertise in Public Health (5cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Objective

Students are able to recognise and define public health challenges in the Finnish population and apply preventive evidence-based counselling, care and rehabilitation methods. Students are able to recognise and define public health challenges and risks also at international level.

Content

Public health visions
Public health challenges and risks at national and international level
Preventive counseling

Materials

Is introduced during the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures, group work, assignments, eLearning

Employer connections

Possibly working life oriented tasks.

International connections

Textual and visual materials in English are possible.

Student workload

135 hours of student work that consists of 3 days in campus, self work and assignments partly in Moodle learning environment.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students are able to recognise contemporary evidence-based guidelines and challenges pertaining to the promotion of public health and to the prevention of prevalent diseases and different counselling methods.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students are able to apply contemporary evidence-based guidelines pertaining to the promotion of public health and to the prevention of prevalent diseases and to use different counselling methods.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students are able to evaluate and develop evidence-based knowledge and different counseling methods to promote public health and to prevent prevalent diseases.