Study Guide

Objective

The student is able
- to describe current challenges of population’s health and well-being as well as factors affecting them
- to describe the indicators of health and well-being as well as the meaning of knowledge when identifying and organizing services
- to describe social and health services organization and legislation
- to describe social security system, especially in the perspective of working ability, functional capacity and rehabilitation
- to search for information and to guide clients in different life situations to social and health services
- to recognize the meaning of multiprofessionality in the perspective of service needs

Content

1. The status of the population’s health and well-being
- current challenges and factors affecting them
- promotion of health and functional ability, prevention of illnesses and accidents
- registers and statistics

2. Social and health services
- social and health care organization and development of it, funding, responsibilities, control/monitoring and client’s and patient’s rights
- social and health services
- rehabilitation and rehabilitation services
- income security

3. Guidance of clients
- searching information about social and health services and benefits
- applying information when guiding clients in different life situations

Materials

The learning material is found from the itslearning-studybase where the course is executed individually.

Completion alternatives

Students do the assignments in itslearning-base individually in the timeframe given for the course.

Student workload

5 credit = 125 hours work

Content scheduling

This course is aimed primarily at exchange students who study social services. If there is room for other students, the degree students of social services are the next who will be accepted for the course.

Student is working independently starting in Theme 1 and then themes in order. Introductions will open in 7th february 2022 at 8 am. Last date for returning tasks is 16 may 2022 at 23.59 pm. Tasks returned later will not be evaluated, student will sign in this course in autumn 2022.
Students complete 8-10 tasks /assignments. The tasks will be either accepted or failed, in which case they need to be corrected. All the tasks need to be accepted to be able to finish this course.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

All the tasks has to be answered. When you receive the right answer, comment and reflect your own answer regarding to the given right answer. Return all the tasks either by 16th march, 20th april or 16th may. Teachers will evaluate tasks and write down the grade in Peppi after 30rd march, 4th may or 30rd may 2022.

Qualifications

This course is aimed primarily at exchange students who study social services. If there is room for other students, the degree students of social services are the next who will be accepted for the course.