Master's Degree Programme in Health Promotion: Master's Degree Programme in Health Promotion S1923S6_COPY

Descriptions

Metropolia is a continuously renewable multidisciplinary learning community that educates sought-after employees with high-quality, versatile, and international professional skills developed under the principle of lifelong learning. The students’ knowledge and skills are built cooperatively in a fruitful interaction with professional life. Digital, local and international learning environments are used diversely. The unique and valuable qualities of each student are cherished. During the studies, innovations are produced to the needs of workplaces, clients, and society at large. Metropolia’s open way of working changes the surrounding society into a better place for us all. Metropolia predicts future competence needs and encourages students to actively enhance their skills.

Health Promotion Master’s degree is focused on the expertise on promotion and management of the health and well-being of the population. Professionals with a Bachelor's degree on in the social, health, or other relevant sciences and at least two years' work experience can continue their Health Promotion Expertise studies in this program.

Health promotion study program is planned in line with international health promotion competence criteria (International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education: Core Competencies and Professional Standards For Health Promotion, 2016) as well as by national reforms, strategies and competence needs. The degree studies includes Health Promotion expertise studies (40 ECTS), elective studies (10 ECTS) and research and development studies (40 ECTS), which include a thesis.

Working profiles of graduates:
You’ll reach expertise in health promotion, such as applying and developing evidence-based practices, multidisciplinary networking, coordination and leadership. Graduates are critical, development-oriented experts and can work in a variety of health and well-being roles in public, private, or third sector organizations or as entrepreneurs.

Development

The training is carried out in close cooperation with organizations and professionals of health promotion actions. The design of the training is based on the research and development project Health Promotion Program (2016-2019, Future Health Promotion Competencies), which was funded by the EU Central Baltic Program (http://hpp.tlu.ee/en/). The curriculum is based on the Professional Core Competencies for Health Promotion as defined by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education: (IUHPE)http://www.ukphr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Core_Competencies_Standards_linkE.pdf
The main stakeholders of the degree program are the Finnish institute for health and welfare (THL),
Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), national Wellbeing services counties, Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health (Soste), professional associations and unions, municipalities in
The metropolitan area of Finland.

Further information

Head of Degree Programme Arja Liinamo
Degree Programme Coordinator Outi Sorri.

Objective

The skills and knowledge of students graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences are described according to the NQF, National Qualifications Framework, and the recommendations of the Rectors' Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences.

General competences: competence descriptions

Learning competence
- lifelong learning competence: is able to self-evaluate and develop one's expertise in a versatile and focused way
- is able to retrieve, analyse and produce information and evaluate it critically from the viewpoint of different fields
- is able to supervise and mentor others and to share one's expertise
- is capable of taking responsibility for collaborative learning in a target-oriented way

Ethical competence
- is able to take responsibility for the actions of a community and their consequences as well as to evaluate the effects of the actions
- is able to apply the ethical principles of the subject field as an expert and as a developer of working life
- is able to make responsible and sustainable decisions, considering an individual and the community
- is able to contribute to the principles of equality in working life
- is able to contribute to the principles of sustainable development and social responsibility
- is able to leading socially influential activities based on ethical values

Working community competence
- is able to develop and lead the operation of a diverse and multidisciplinary work community and to improve its wellbeing and productivity
- is able to develop working life communication and interaction in a participatory way, taking diversity into account
- is able to apply technological possibilities in working life communication and interaction
- is able to create and lead networks and partnerships
- is capable of managing and supervising tasks and improving activities in complicated and unpredictable environments
- is capable of working in demanding expert, entrepreneur, management and supervision tasks. as an expert or entrepreneur, and has abilities for management and supervision tasks

Innovation competence
- is able to create new knowledge and improve existing working methods by combining expertise from different fields
- is capable of managing projects
- is able to manage research, development and innovation projects and masters the methods of research and development work
- is able to develop innovative, customer-oriented, sustainable and cost-effective solutions

Multicultural competence
- is capable of managing and developing multicultural, international networks and working communities
- is able to predict the effects of and opportunities for global development and phenomena in one’s own field
- is capable of demanding international communication and interaction

Technological competence
- is able to apply technological opportunities in management, expert and development work
- is able to predict the effects of technological development on one's field, work and operating environment
- is capable of promoting technological development and its utilisation in one's field