Health Promotion (2 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Contact hours (1 info hour + 3 lecture hours), independent online study (20 hours), and written output (20 hours) according to the Its instructions. The course content includes familiarization with the concepts and ethics of health promotion from both nursing and midwifery perspectives.

Objective

The students will be able to:

· Describe a health-based approach as the basis for nursing and midwifery
· Describe current challenges related to the health and well-being of the population
· Outline the whole set of health and social services and the meaning of legislation that guides services
· Search for information and guide clients in different life situations to social and health care services
· Recognise the importance of multi-professionalism from the perspective of service needs
· Describe the principles of sustainable development, taking into account ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability, and the capital they generate

Content

Contents

• Health orientation in midwife work, health and health orientation as concepts, inclusion, empowerment, resource orientation and midwives as health promoters
• Customer-oriented social and health services, health and well-being of the population (current challenges and factors affecting them)
• Promoting health and functional capacity, and preventing illnesses and accidents
• The social and health care system and itsdevelopment, financing, responsibilities, supervision and customer/patient rights
• Social and health care services and directing customers to them
• Sustainable activities in midwifery work, subareas of sustainable development: ecological sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability, cultural sustainability

Materials

Digital material according to Its.

Teaching methods

Contact teaching, independent study, and online study.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Lectures, independent study, and online study

Completion alternatives

To be agreed separately with the teacher. This implementation, except for the information session, can be completed regardless of time and place by returning the written assigment by the dl. stated in Its.

Student workload

Digital learning environment (Its), written assigment according to the info in Its.

Evaluation methods and criteria

The written output is evaluated by the teacher on the evaluation scale and implementing the evaluation criteria stated below.

Failed (0)

The written output does not meet the content requirements of the assignment or the task has not been submitted by the deadline.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The written output partially meets the content requirements of the assignment, is unfinished in form and/or contains significant errors.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The written output meets the content requirements of the assignment but is unfinished in form, narrow in scope, or contains some errors.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The written output meets the content requirements of the assignment, is comprehensive in content, polished in form, and contains no errors.

Further information

Itslearning (Its)