Master's Degree Programme in Health Promotion: S1925S6

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.

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 core competence studies (30 ECTS), elective studies (30 ECTS) and research and development studies (30 ECTS), which include a thesis.

Working profiles of graduates:
You’ll reach expertise in health promotion, such as applying and developing evidence-based health promotion 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

In the development of the curriculum and pedagogy, there is active cooperation with organizations and experts responsible for health promotion. The project ‘Health Promotion Program (2016-2019, The Future of Health Promotion Competence, http://hpp.tlu.ee/fi /) financed by the EU's Central Baltic program has been used in the planning of the curriculum. The curriculum also follows competence criteria Core Competencies and Professional Standards for Health Promotion, defined by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

Key stakeholders in the degree development work are the National Institute of Health and wellbeing (THL), Helsinki University district hospital (HUS), regional health and wellbeing organizations, NGOs (Soste) as well as professional associations, municipalities and enterprises.

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