Entry requirements

General entry requirements

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Identify and describe factors of significance for the own individual's health and for public health

• Describe the development of the public health in the population at a general level national and international to today

• Identify target groups and levels for public health interventions

• Identify and describe public health stakeholders and public health goals for different risk groups

• Explanation fields where inequality health prevails and describe different social determinants for health

• Account for the connection between discrimination and health

• Identify different scientific methods in public health and evaluate scientific articles

• Understand how to study risk for disease

• Discuss and reflect public health fields such as unhealthy behaviours in the world and health work based on different public health aims.

• Compile knowledge and share knowledge

• Design and describe a plan for a public health intervention

Content

• Public health goals

• Common diseases

• Living habits

• Factors with health impact

• Participation

• Risk groups

• Gender

• Social determinants

• Discrimination

• Public health stakeholders

• Basic epidemiology

• Public health historically and internationally

• Scientific methods within public health

• Different structures and levels of public health work

• Public health projects

Instruction

Web-based lectures, films and radio, individual written assignments, discussions in web-based forum, own reading and information search. All teaching is web-based.

Assessment

Written assignments and tests. Active participation in discussions.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.