Health Promotion (online) (bilingual) (3 ECTS)
Code: SX00FZ42-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.12.2025 - 14.12.2025
- Registration for implementation has not started yet.
- Timing
- 05.01.2026 - 31.07.2026
- The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 3 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 30
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
- Teachers
- Nursing Virtuaali
- Course
- SX00FZ42
Learning outcomes
Student
- understands the theoretical levels, foundations and principles of health promotion
- can identify factors linked to public health and perceive changes in the health of the population
- can identify factors affecting the health of a community and apply this knowledge in their own work
- can apply a health promotion approach in their work: bringing up health habits and supporting health changes
- can apply ethical principles in health promotion
- is able to consider sustainable development in health promotion.
Content
Levels of health promotion: prevention and promotion
Factors affecting population health: determinants of health
The link between lifestyle and health and prevention of risk factors for chronic diseases
National nutrition recommendations
A motivational, empowerment and solution-focused approach to health promotion
Ethics of health promotion
Sustainable development in health promotion
Prerequisites
N/A
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Student
- Can adequately search for information and use the knowledge base in the field to plan their professional activities
- Possesses adequate knowledge and skills for professional activities
- Acts in a client/patient-oriented manner and takes into account safety issues and ethical principles
- Is able to assess their own strengths and development needs
Assessment criteria, good (3)
Student
- Can use evidence-based knowledge to plan their professional activities
- Can act in a client/patient-oriented and responsible manner
- Can use professional ethical principles in their professional activities, taking into account safety aspects
- Is able to interact with consideration for diversity
- Recognises their own strengths and development needs
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
Student
- Applies a wide range of professional knowledge based on evidence
- Can act in a client/patient-oriented and responsible manner and assess the consequences of their actions
- Acts in accordance with professional ethical principles, taking into account safety aspects
- Is able to interact with respect for diversity
- Recognises their own strengths and development needs and is able to develop their professional activities
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
PASS
Student
- Can adequately search for information and use the knowledge base in the field to plan their professional activities
- Possesses adequate knowledge and skills for professional activities
- Acts in a client/patient-oriented manner and takes into account safety issues and ethical principles
- Is able to assess their own strengths and development needs
FAIL
Student
- Cannot adequately search for information and cannot use the knowledge base in the field to plan their professional activities
- Does not have sufficient knowledge and skills for professional activities
- Cannot act in a client/patient-oriented manner and cannot take into account safety issues and ethical principles
- Is unable to assess their own strengths or development needs