Entry requirements

For admission to the course, 112.5 credits within the physiotherapy programme and within the physician programme are required. All oral, written and practical examinations in physiotherapy from earlier semesters must be passed. If the examination consists of a report, this should be submitted before end of the actual semester and must be approved at the latest the following semester.

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to make the students able to plan, organise and evaluate relevant health promotion measures considering working environment legislation and behavioural change theories on group and organisational level.

After completed course, the student should be able to:

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

1. international and national public health aims to promote the health of the population.

2. the Occupational Safety and Health Act to promote health at work

3. relevant theories and methods for planning, implementing and evaluating public health care on group and organisational level, and to analyse such work critically

4. explain and illustrate by examples health economic theories and methods used within health care to evaluate costs and integrate costs with benefits.

SKILLS AND ABILITY

5. analyse working environmental problems in a workplace and be able to propose measures

6. account for organisational and leadership structures in a workplace and reflect on how these can influence the working environment and work performance

7. present how a leader for activities or a working group can act to stimulate to a good working climate and good work performance

EVALUATION ABILITY AND ATTITUDES

8. discuss the influence of mass media and the cultural effects on health

9. consider ethical issues in public health care

Content

International and national health and socio-political aims supporting public health with emphasis on society-based strategies to promote the population's health.

Theories and models of health promoting and preventive care on organisation and group level are described and applied. Tools for planning, controlling and evaluating public health care will be described and applied practically. The influence and cultural effects of mass media on health are described. Particularly health information efforts to influence and support health behaviour are elucidated.

The bases of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The relationships between health, disease and working environment is highlighted.

Ethical issues in the primary health care will be paid attention to.

Basic principles of health economics are described.

Instruction

The teaching is given in the form of student based teaching, lectures, seminars and processing and presentation of practical assignment in groups.

Assessment

Passing the course requires:

Passed written examination that examines aim 1-4 8-9

Passed reports from a working place visit; a plan for relevant health measures on group and organisational level considering the Occupational Safety and Health Act examines aim 5-7

Compulsory attendance at all seminars.

Students who have not passed the examination have a right to attend 4 additional examinations (i.e. 5 examinations in total). If special circumstances apply, the programme committee may admit additional examinations. Every time the student participates in an examination counts. Submission of so called blank exam is counted as an examination.