FYB2600 Public health, working life, and physical function in the elderly Course description

0 stp. overlapp med FYB1200 Anatomi og fysiologi - II.

The student can only remain with one failed course from the first year of the study.

After completing the course, the student has the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe the purpose, organisation and coordination of the health and social services, including laws and regulations
• is familiar with health and function in different phases of life, with emphasis on the elderly
• can describe and explain factors that affect health, disease and quality of life for population groups or the population as a whole
• can describe the epidemiological and demographic basis for public health work
• can describe social inequality in health and is familiar with national and global consequences of this
• is familiar with methods to promote public health and societal sustainability at group and system level

Skills

The student can

• apply standardised measurement methods and assessments for physical function and quality of life in the elderly
• plan and justify health-promoting and preventive measures in a diverse society that promotes mental and physical health
• plan and facilitate training in groups in a preventive and health-promoting perspective, and adapt activity to different levels, individually and in groups
• collect information about the state of public health at the municipal level, and discuss factors that affect public health and that can explain social inequality in health
• assess factors within school or workplace environment that may impact health and participation

General competence

The student can

• reflect on how priorities within the health sector and other sectors of society can affect the health of the population
• reflect on ethical challenges related to public health work that aims to change behaviour
• account for how physiotherapists can strengthen health literacy in encounters with users, patients and relatives
• reflect on the status of the Sami as indigenous people in relation to the design of the health and social services

The bachelor’s theses are normally written in groups of 2-3 students. If the project’s topic is interprofessional, the project group can also include a student from another bachelor’s programme, subject to the approval of the person responsible for the course at both programmes.

The work and teaching methods include lectures, seminars, supervision and self-study in the project group. At the start, project sketching seminars are arranged, including a half-day seminar with presentation of the project sketch and feedback on fellow students' project sketching. Halfway into the project, students meet to present the preliminary project status and provide input to fellow students for use in the completion of the projects.

Students are assigned a supervisor after submitting a project outline. The supervision is based on written project material and specific questions submitted by the student group ahead of the supervision session. Each group receives two (2) hours of supervision on the project outline during the seminars, and three (3) hours of individual project supervision.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

• Participation in a seminar in connection with the presentation of the project outline (half day).
• Project outline according to applicable criteria. The project outline is subject to professional assessment and must be approved before the project work is initiated.
• a presentation at the midway seminar on project status and, if relevant, a risk assessment of personal data processing

Project-based, written exam in groups of 2-4 students, 1400 words (+/- 10 %). The students work on the project assignment for large parts of the course period.

New and rescheduled exams: If the assignment is assessed as failed, students have the opportunity to submit a revised version once.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for the referencing sources are followed.

Grade scale A-F.

All answers are assessed by one examiner. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum for every third ordinary examination. If selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 10 answers. The external examiner’s assessment shall form the basis for the assessment of the remaining answers.

4 credits overlap with FYB2100 Health and Participation Throughout the Life Span I, 5 credits overlap with FYB2300 Health and Participation Throughout the Life Span II and 1 credit overlap with FYB1050 Public Health and Health Management.