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,
- to search for information of social and health services to clients in different life situations
- to recognize the meaning of multiprofessionality in the perspective of service needs
- to act more securely and understand the responsibility for promoting security

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
- income security
- searching information about social and health services and benefits

3. Security in social and health care

Materials

Material announced in Itslearning.

Teaching methods

Independent online study.

Exam schedules

The course is open from January 1st 2024 to May 12th 2024.

International connections

Online pedagogy / innovation pedagogy

Completion alternatives

None.

Student workload

The learning tasks will be described more specifically in ItsLearning. 2 credit corresponds to 54 hours of student work.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Approved

All learning assignments in Itslearning must be answered. To complete the course it requires that all learning assignments has been answered within the given deadline. The course is approved when all the earning assignments of the course have been successfully completed and returned on time.

To complete the course it requires that the student has answered all points of the assignment and that the content of the assignment corresponds to the assignment. The assessment of factors related to health and well-being, such as different life situations, social and health services and the need for these services, is clear and appropriate to the context. The central contents of social and health services have been understood and written openly using sources. The student understood the Importance of Cyber Security in social and health services. The student knows how to search information from different social and healthcare services. The contents of the assignments may still include parts that are separate from each other.

Failed:

The learning assignments has not been completed, and/or not all points in the assignment has been answered or they has been returned with very incomplete information.

The student does not recognize or is not able to clearly demonstrate the effects of factors related to health and well-being on the client's life situation. The student has not understood the central contents of social and health services. The student doesn't understood the Importance of Cyber Security in social and health services. A high percentage of plagiarism leads to a request to complete the assignment again. Systematic plagiarism (e.g. using another student's answers) will result in course failure.

Content scheduling

The content and schedules are specified on the Itslearning platform.

The course is open from January 1st 2024 to May 12th 2024.
All communication of the course takes place on the Itslearning platform. Please contact the teacher of the course if you cannot access the Itslearning platform.

This course is open in a certain time and all the sections should be done on schedule.
Teachers will check that you have done all the sections acceptably and then give you a grade (approved/failed) in Peppi.

To pass this course:

To complete the course, all of sections materials must be studied and the assignments should be done in the given order (first section 1, then section 2 etc.).

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Themes:
1. Population`s Health and Well-Being
2. Organizing wellbeing Services
3. Social and health services
4. Income support
5. Comparison

(Sections: Information security, Rehabilitation and Client guidance and counseling case work are not included in this implementation)

You will have all the needed materials and assignments linked in this Itslearning platform.

After studying all the sections, go to “tila ja seuranta” – “arviointikirja” (eng. status and follow up – assessment record) and make sure to check that you had done all the sections acceptably.

Further information

All communication of the course takes place on the Itslearning platform. Please be contact with the teacher of the course if you cannot access the Itslearning platform. Itslearning will open when the registrations have been approved.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

To complete the course, all sections of the online course must be passed.

All course learning assignments must be returned to the Itslearning platform. The student has the right to repeat the failed learning assignments of the study course twice. Learning assignments must be returned primarily on the first return day assigned to them, and not returning your learning assignment correspond failed. Failed learning assignments will be returned according to the schedule determined by the teacher.