Health Promotion Management (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Contact meetings will be organized via Zoom. Zoom link for these meetings can be found from the online learning environment of the course.

Objective

After completing the course the student is able to:
- work as an expert in the social and health care services
- solve problems in health promotion and develop innovative solutions
- understand and participate to the societal decision-making
- explain the structure, decision-making and financing system of a service system and develop the service system to meet the population's needs

Content

- Social and Health care services and their current challenges
- Promotion of health and well-being in the societal decision making
- Policy work, management and leadership related to health promotion

Materials

Material of the course are available in the online learning-platform.

Teaching methods

Individual tasks (orienting tasks and end tests of modules)
Collaborative group working (in breakout rooms during contact meetings)
Pairworking (writing a short policy brief)

Exam schedules

No exam.

International connections

Teaching in Turku University of Applied Sciences is based on innovation pedagogy approach: https://innopeda.turkuamk.fi/language/en/home/

Completion alternatives

No alternative methods available.

Student workload

Tasks and working in the online environment of the course 3 op
Contact teaching 2 op

Further information

Master-studies, not for bachelor-studies.