EPN-V2

MAEMP4100 Public Health, Empowerment and Health Promotion Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Folkehelse, empowerment og helsefremmende arbeid
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2025/2026
Course history
Curriculum
FALL 2025
Schedule
Programme description

  • Introduction

    Language of instruction: Norwegian

    This course focuses on legislation and health policy guidelines related to public health, empowerment and health-promoting work. Key areas include empowerment as a concept, process and result, as well as learning and coping. Students will work on concepts, theory and models related to public health work and public health science. Collaboration, interprofessional cooperation, and user participation and decision-making support will be highlighted and critically assessed.

  • Required preliminary courses

    The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Programme in Health Sciences.

  • Learning outcomes

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

    Knowledge

    The student:

    • can analyse key academic and health policy guidelines and their consequences for practice
    • can analyse the roles and functions of health personnel in the areas of public health, empowerment and health promotion
    • can critically assess the meaning of social inequality and the relationship between health, power and society

    Skills

    The student:

    • can analyse the meaning of the principles of empowerment thinking (the user as the expert on him/herself, participation and the redistribution of power)

    General competence

    The student:

    • can analyse academic and ethical problems in the areas of public health, empowerment and health-promoting work

  • Teaching and learning methods

    The course will use varied, student-active work methods. Work and teaching methods include lectures, group work and self-study.

  • Course requirements

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

    • Minimum 50% attendance at scheduled lessons.

  • Assessment

    Individual school examination, 5 hours

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    None

  • Grading scale

    Grade scale A-F.

  • Examiners

    All answers are assessed by one examiner.

    An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

  • Overlapping courses

    10 ECTS credits overlaps with MAPO4100 Public Health, Empowerment and Health Promotion, 10 ECTS credits.