Study Guide

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.

Students are able to recognise treatment and rehabilitation methods used in Finnish prevalent and chronic diseases and apply evidence-based, empowering and client-centred counselling, care and rehabilitation methods. Students know how to apply current care guidelines on prevalent diseases.
Students can argue for the importance of patients'/clients' self-care support, motivation and compliance in responding to various prevalent diseases.
Students know how to use various patient counselling methods.
Students are aware of the roles of the third sector and experts by experience in supporting patients'/clients' self-care.

Content

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

Teaching methods

Discussion lessons, pair and group working

Evaluation scale

1-5

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.

Students are able to recognise contemporary evidence-based guidelines and challenges pertaining to the care and the rehabilitation of prevalent or chronic 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.

Students are able to apply contemporary evidence-based guidelines pertaining to the care and the rehabilitation of prevalent or chronic 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.

Students are able to evaluate and respond to challenges pertaining to the care and the rehabilitation of prevalent or chronic diseases with the help of evidence-based knowledge and different counselling methods.

Assessment methods and criteria

Independent tasks, numeric evaluation: 1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students are not 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.Students are not able to recognise contemporary evidence-based guidelines and challenges pertaining to the care and the rehabilitation of prevalent or chronic diseases and different counselling methods.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

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.Students are able to recognise contemporary evidence-based guidelines and challenges pertaining to the care and the rehabilitation of prevalent or chronic diseases and different counselling methods.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

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, approved/failed

Students are able to evaluate and develop evidence-based knowledge and different counseling methods to promote public health and to prevent prevalent diseases.Students are able to evaluate and respond to challenges pertaining to the care and the rehabilitation of prevalent or chronic diseases with the help of evidence-based knowledge and different counselling methods.