Health Promotion Management I (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Finnish Social and Healt policy
Finnish Health Care system
Social and Health Care in Europe

Objective

The student shall be able to
- solve problems in health promotion and develop and manage health promotion innovatively in the field of social and health care
- explain decision-making mechanisms in social and health care and social policies and services and interpret their effect on controlling decision-making in social and health care nationally and internationally
- explain the structure, decision-making and financing system of a service system and compare from different angles the possibilities of the current service system to meet the population's needs
- explain the significance of strategy as a management tool as well as the foundations of a strategic process and its implementation
- evaluate and familiarize ownself with different leaderships and management models

Content

- Social and Health care services in Finland
- Promoting health and well- being in municipal decision making
- Public health challenges and their health promotion in Finland (and in other countries)
- Health promotion management and leadership
- Business and enterprise in health promotion management and leadership
- Models and theoretical base of health promotion management and leadership (theories and models and good practices, such as knowledge management, LEAN, changed management and service design)
- Leadership and health and well-being at work

(achievement in English and suitable for exchanged students)

Materials

The material is in Optima

Teaching methods

Group work, individual tasks and exam

Exam schedules

The time for the exam will be diskussed together.

Student workload

Exam 2op
Task 2op
Clasroom working 1 op

Evaluation methods and criteria

One Exam (T1-K5) and one task (hyv - hyl)