Entry requirements

At least 180 credits.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should

Understand and account for:

• central public health areas
• different levels in public health
• different methods and strategies in public health
• how the relationship between social progress and national diseases looks

Show skills and abilities to

• apply and analyse public health political aims
• independent identify target groups for public health
• identify different actors' role in public health
• apply research-ethical principles within public health

Content

• national, international and historical public health
• concepts within public health
• public health political aims and health theories
• the determinants of the health
• different levels in the public health: individual, group, organisation- and community level
• target groups for public health
• different actors' role in public health
• strategies and research methods within public health
• research-ethical principles within the public health

Instruction

Lectures and seminars.

Assessment

The student should demonstrate advanced knowledge and an understanding of the bases of the public health according to objective areas described above under learning outcome. Passing the course requires, actively participating in seminars, passed results of written and oral examinations.