Study Guide

Objective

Students will learn to:

-assess the accessibility of the environment
-represent physiotherapy expertise in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings and flats or remodelling projects
-use welfare technology and digitalization to plan and implement barrier-free environments
-argue for the benefits of a barrier-free environment (a multiprofessional and inclusive approach to planning the environment)
-tell about how city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing
-present a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities
-analyze how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour
-tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing

Content

Assessing the accessibility of the environment
Free-barrier living and planning of buildings
Inclusion
Welfare technology and digitalization
Remodelling designs, legislation, funding and costs
Community and city planning, sports facilities, local goals and strategies
Mental images, media environment and nature as a factor conducive to wellbeing

Materials

https://thl.fi/fi/web/vammaispalvelujen-kasikirja/vammaisuus-yhteiskunnassa/esteettomyys-ja-saavutettavuus
https://www.invalidiliitto.fi/esteettomyys/esteettomyyskeskus-eske
https://kortistot.rakennustieto.fi/kortit/RT%20103141?external_system=Juha&page=1
https://thl.fi/fi/tutkimus-ja-kehittaminen/tutkimukset-ja-hankkeet/kotona-asumisen-teknologiat-ikaihmisille-ohjelma-kati-?redirect=%2Ffi%2Ftutkimus-ja-kehittaminen%2Ftutkimukset-ja-hankkeet%2Ftutkimukset-ja-hankkeet-aiheittain%2Fikaantyminen-tutkimukset-ja-hankkeet

Teaching methods

Expert lectures
Practical training lessons, reports
E-learning
small-group work, practical work, seminar presentations

Student workload

Lectures
Practice Exercises, group work
Seminar
Independent work
Contact lessons 40%, e-learning and independent work 60%

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students can:

under supervision, assess the accessibility of the environment and represent the physiotherapy perspective in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings, flats and remodelling projects. With support, students are able to make use of welfare technology and digitalization when planning and implementing barrier-free environments. Students are able to name some benefits of a barrier-free environment. They can to a limited extent explain how city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing. Students can give some invididual examples of
a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities, to a limited extent explain how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour and to a limited extent tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students can:

assess the accessibility of the environment and represent the physiotherapy perspective as experts in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings, flats and remodelling projects. Students are able to make use of welfare technology and digitalization when planning and implementing barrier-free environments. Students are able to argue for the benefits of a barrier-free environment. They can give reasons for why city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing. Students can give examples of a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities. They can to some extent explain how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour and tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students can:

comprehensively assess the accessibility of the environment and represent the physiotherapy perspective as experts in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings, flats and remodelling projects. Students are able to make use of welfare technology and digitalization when planning and implementing barrier-free environments. Students are able to comprehensively argue for the benefits of a barrier-free environment. They can give reasons for why city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing. Students are able to present a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities. Besides giving examples, they are able analyze how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour, and to tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing.

Assessment methods and criteria

Seminar work and active participation in the course

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students can:

under supervision, assess the accessibility of the environment and represent the physiotherapy perspective in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings, flats and remodelling projects. With support, students are able to make use of welfare technology and digitalization when planning and implementing barrier-free environments. Students are able to name some benefits of a barrier-free environment. They can to a limited extent explain how city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing. Students can give some invididual examples of
a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities, to a limited extent explain how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour and to a limited extent tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students can:

assess the accessibility of the environment and represent the physiotherapy perspective as experts in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings, flats and remodelling projects. Students are able to make use of welfare technology and digitalization when planning and implementing barrier-free environments. Students are able to argue for the benefits of a barrier-free environment. They can give reasons for why city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing. Students can give examples of a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities. They can to some extent explain how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour and tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Students can:

comprehensively assess the accessibility of the environment and represent the physiotherapy perspective as experts in multiprofessional teams planning public buildings, flats and remodelling projects. Students are able to make use of welfare technology and digitalization when planning and implementing barrier-free environments. Students are able to comprehensively argue for the benefits of a barrier-free environment. They can give reasons for why city planning and an environment that encourages physical activity and healthy choices can help promote health and wellbeing. Students are able to present a municipal strategy on physical exercise and sports facilities. Besides giving examples, they are able analyze how mental images produced by media affect people's health behaviour, and to tell about the meaning of nature for people's wellbeing.