Practical Training in Health Promotion (3cr)

Objective

Students understand principles of health promotion and know how to act according to the values of health promotion. They understand the economic perspective of health promotion. Students are able to apply existing knowledge of the population's health challenges
on individual and community level. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate individual, group and community-level health promotion methods. They are able to prevent risk factors, which might impair the individual's, family's or community's health and ability to function. Students know how to ethically use the client's experiential knowledge in the care of health and diseases. Students can describe the strategies of important national and international health and social policy programmes from the perspective of health promotion.

Content

Practical training, including planning, implementation, evaluation and presentation of a health promotion assignment.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail = 0
Students
- inadequately describe the background, purpose and goals of the practical training placement in their report
-do not seek or utilise theoretical information
-demonstrate poor motivation towards the practical training
-do not describe their learning experiences
-do not contribute to group work in a responsible manner
-do not observe Seinäjoki UAS Guidelines on written assignments