PMED1050 Public Health and Health Management Course description

The language is normally English. For Norwegian students, the topic of health management is taught in Norwegian.;

This common course is developed for all the bachelor’s degree programmes taught at the Faculty of Health Sciences that are covered by the National Curriculum Regulations for Norwegian Health and Welfare Education (RETHOS).;;

The course deals with public health and health management. Public health emphasises the distribution of health challenges in the population based on causal connections and risk factors relating to health, education, work and living conditions, international guidelines and conditions with a bearing on illness, health and quality of life in the population at individual, group and society level, including the sustainability goals.;;Health management emphasis a fundamental understanding of how the health service is organised, relevant legislation, strategies and goals for preventive and health promoting work in Norway.;;For international students, the focus will be on the Nordic welfare model.;

Grade scale A-F

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.

The teaching and learning methods include digital textbooks and digital supervised seminars. The course is organized as flipped classroom. Digital textbooks will be made available to students in advance.

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Individual home;examination;(multiple choice), 45 minutes.

The exam is in English, with the exception of health management which is in Norwegian for Norwegian students. ;

All aids are permitted.;;

Pass/fail;;

One external and one internal examiner control the set of questions, the internal examiner checks the answers.

BIOB1050, ERGOB1050, FARB1050, FYB1050, RAB1050, ORI1050, PMED1050, SYKK1050, SYKP1050, TAB1050 overlap 100 %.