OSA02MK23POR Health and welfare promotion (3 cr)
Code: OSA0203A20S-3027
General information
Enrollment
19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022
Timing
13.03.2023 - 26.05.2023
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
67 % Contact teaching, 33 % Distance learning
Campus
Pori
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 100
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Tiina Takku
Groups
-
F53sh
Objective
Students
- understand the basis and ethical challenges of health promotion
- understand the nation’s state of health and wellbeing and related factors on the level of the individual and communities
- understand the connection of social decision-making and structures to health and wellbeing
- know how to utilise motivating health talk as an assistance method
- are familiar with the legislation and programmes related to the promotion of health and wellbeing
Content
- principles of health and sickness
- health promotion, different levels and operating methods, such as motivating health talk
- theories and models that explain health and wellbeing
- social dimensions of health and sickness in epidemiology and public health medicine
- factors behind health disparities and marginalisation
- the relationship between lifestyle and health
- norm, resource and information guidance of health promotion and wellbeing
- ethics of health promotion
Evaluation scale
0-5