MAHEL4100 Public Health Work on Population, Group and Individual Level Course description

Language of instruction: Norwegian

This course focuses on the public health nurse’s health promotion and preventive work with children, adolescents and their families/caregivers at the population, group and individual level. This takes place in the municipal health service, at children’s health clinics (0-5 years), in the school health service and youth health centres (6-20 years), as well as in environmental health care, infection control and in the refugee health service. This course is based on key theories and methods in public health science. The academic field's history and current place in society are key aspects. The course is based on health policy guidelines, framework conditions and legislation that are crucial to the public health nurse’s professional practice. Knowledge-based practice (research, empirical data, and user perspectives in equal proportions) are key aspects of the course.

The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Degree Programme in Health Sciences - Specialisation in Public Health Nursing.

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 and critically assess key theoretical perspectives in health promotion and preventive work at the population, group and individual level
• can critically reflect on how variation in health literacy affects user groups’ coping skills, and how they understand, assess and use health information
• can explain the public health nurse's role in society
• can describe administrative levels and decision-making processes in society that are of relevance to professional practice and cross-sector public health work
• can critically assess the significance of different cultures for health promotion and preventive work
• can describe the rights of ethnic groups and indigenous peoples
• can discuss ethics in relation to inclusion and equality

Skills

The student

• can use a knowledge-based approach in systematic public health work
• can perform health promotion and preventive work with children, adolescents and their families, including in the refugee health service
• can plan, manage and develop the municipal public health nursing services in accordance with laws, regulations, framework conditions and local conditions
• can identify the need for, assess, initiate and carry out infection control work, including the Childhood Immunisation Programme

General competence

• can contribute to understanding and respect for people’s situations and conditions that affect their life choices, development and health
• can assess, communicate knowledge and demonstrate skills relating to the special needs of indigenous people, migrants and minorities, and take a culturally sensitive approach in their work
• can reflect on ethical dilemmas in the field of practice based on various ethical principles and theories
• can implement measures that help to reduce social health inequalities
• can analyse and critically assess key theoretical perspectives in epidemiology

The course will use varied, student-active work methods. Work and teaching methods used in the course include lectures, oral and written assignments with presentations (individually and in groups), seminars, skills training and self-study.

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

• minimum attendance of 80 % in skills training, seminars and scheduled group work
• a written assignment of up to 1,500 words in groups of up to five students, with an oral presentation of the assignment
• completed and passed digital multiple-choice test, with the possibility of three attempts in the course of a week

An individual six-hour home exam. Scope: Up to 3000 words.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Emnet gir en innføring i migrasjonens nyere historie internasjonalt og i Norge. Vi spør: Hvilke typer migrasjon har vært dominerende de siste tiårene? Hvilke drivkrefter ligger bak bevegelsen av asylsøkere, arbeidsmigranter, familiemigranter og andre? Hvordan har innvandringspolitikken endret seg over tid? Videre ser vi på hva som er konsekvensene av migrasjonen for landene de reiser fra, for mottakerlandet og for migrantene selv. Kurset bruker aktuelle debatter om innvandring, integrering og mangfold som utgangspunkt for å drøfte pensumlitteraturen.

Ingen forkunnskapskrav.

Studenten skal etter å ha fullført emnet ha følgende totale læringsutbytte definert i kunnskap, ferdigheter og generell kompetanse:

Studentene har forståelse av migrasjonsstrømmer og deres årsaker. Videre blir studentene kjent med dilemmaer knyttet til regulering av migrasjon, samt migranters opplevelse.

Kunnskap

Studenten har

• kunnskap om sammenhengen mellom migrasjonsstrømmer og kontroll
• innblikk i motiver og beveggrunner for ulike typer migrasjon
• innsikt i sammenhengen mellom sosial endring, økonomisk endring og migrasjon
• forståelse for årsaker til og virkninger av migrasjon

Ferdigheter

Studenten:

• Kan vurdere årsaker til, virkninger av og utfordringer knyttet til migrasjon for sender- så vel som mottakerland.
• Evner å se sammenhengen mellom migranters migrasjonserfaring og deres levekår i mottakerlandet.
• Har kompetanse til å analysere forholdet mellom innvandrings - og integreringspolitikken og den nasjonale helse - og sosialpolitikken.

Generell kompetanse

​Studenten

• forstår migrasjonens sosiale, kulturelle og samfunnsøkonomiske virkninger både fra senderlandets og mottakerlandets perspektiv