Health Promotion (5 cr)
Code: SX00DZ91-3039
General information
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 15.12.2024
Timing
17.03.2025 - 09.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
School of Health Care
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
20 - 100
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Emergency Care
- Nursing (in Finnish)
- Midwifery
Groups
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Objective
Students
- understand the standpoint and principles of health promotion, including both risk prevention and health promotion
- understand the health determinants related to public health
- follow the public health of the Finnish population and identify changes in relation to it
- understand factors related to community health and know how to apply them to practice
- can apply health promotive approach to practice: bringing up health issues, supporting client’s health changes, motivational and solution-focused approach
- adhere to the ethical principles of health promotion
- can build their work on the foundation of immunization, are proficient in the theoretical aspects of vaccinating and adopt a positive attitude to vaccinating
Content
- standpoint and principles of health promotion: prevention and promotion
- the relation between public health and lifestyle habits to health
- prevention of lifestyle risk behaviours and accident risks
- early identification and focused support for those in need of it
- bringing up lifestyle habits and supporting lifestyle changes
- education promoting health
- ethics in health promotion
- development of community health
- basics of vaccination competence, including prevention of general infectious diseases
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"