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Marketisation and Social and Health Care Services (5 cr)

Code: BH00CK20-3002

General information


Enrollment

01.08.2022 - 31.12.2023

Timing

15.08.2022 - 31.05.2024

Credits

5 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

5 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Master's Degree in Social Services and Health Care, Social Work

Teachers

  • Tiina Hautamäki

Student groups

  • YSOS22

Objective

Students know and are able to explain about the marketisation of social and health care services and about the complexities of the welfare and welfare economy.

Content

Social and health care services are produced in a society increasingly exposed to marketisation, and in a welfare and wellbeing economy. Students familiarize themselves with the subject and write a six-page essay on the following topic: What does the marketization of social and health care services mean, what forms can it take or how can it become apparent to the individual.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students know what is meant by the marketisation of social and health care services and are able to describe it. Students know about the complexities of the welfare and welfare economy.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students know what is meant by the marketisation of social and health care services and are able to describe it. Students know and are able to explain about the complexities of the welfare and welfare economy.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students know what is meant by the marketisation of social and health care services and are able to critically analyse it. Students are able to explain and analyse the complexities of the welfare and welfare economy.

Qualifications

No previous studies are required.