PMED1050 Public Health and Health Management Course description

The language is 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. In the Public Health Act, public health is defined as “the state and distribution of health in the population”. The course deals with the distribution of health challenges in the population based on risk factors related to health. Education, work and living conditions and international guidelines are elements affecting disease, illness, health and quality of life in the population at individual, group and societal level. Several of the international sustainability goals direct attention to countering public health risk factors.

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.

The student must have been admitted to the study programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge and skills:

Knowledge

The student 

• can describe and explain factors that affect disease, health and quality of life in groups or the population as a whole
• can describe the epidemiological and demographical foundation for public health work
• can describe social inequality in relation to health, and is familiar with the national and global consequences of inequality
• can describe the purpose, organisation and coordination of health and social care services
• is familiar with relevant laws and regulations relating to the health and social care services
• can describe the relationship between work, education, social participation, inclusion and the experience of health
• can describe the goals for sustainable development and their significance for public health

Skills

The student can

• reflect on ethical challenges related to public health work that aims to change behaviours
• find, assess and refer to health promoting and preventive strategies, organisation and measures in light of the goals for sustainable development
• reflect on how and why the status of Sami as indigenous peoples affects the development of the health and social care services

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

None

The aim of this course is to build further on the grounding of principles in the earlier security courses and to apply those principles to technologies such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, widely sold as commercial solutions. Students will construct and adapt firewalls and intrusion detection systems, analyse their architectures and analyse security incidents related to cyber security. Actual security incidents will be demonstrated and then analysed in depth by the students.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

The student should have the following outcomes upon completing the course:

Knowledge

Upon successful completion of the course, the student:

• has thorough knowledge of cyber security
• has advanced knowledge of the purpose of firewalls and how they are used in practice to implement a network security policy
• has in-depth knowledge of the type of network information available to classify traffic, such as protocol headers and IP addresses.
• has a thorough understanding of how signature-based host and network intrusion detection and prevention is used in organisations
• has good understanding of malware and cyber threat intelligence
• has good understanding of penetration testing
• has good understanding of computer forensics

Skills

Upon successful completion of the course, the student:

• can implement a high-level network security firewall policy
• can implement host and network intrusion detection and prevention systems
• Is able to analyse and explain the contents of network traffic
• is able to analyse and explain the workings of common cyber security incidents
• can execute penetration tests on network services

General competence

Upon successful completion of the course, the student:

• understands the role of security awareness in organisations
• understands the role of malware and threat intelligence in cyber security
• can explain and discuss security challenges related to cyber security to experts and non-experts alike
• can reflect on how intrusion detection and prevention can improve network security and how it is used in the field

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

The student is required to complete at least 9 of the 13 assignments to a satisfactory level. The assignments focus on technical work and are documented in reports. The reports must adequately detail the completed work.

New exam for spring 2020: Final oral exam by videoconference

[Previous: Individual written exam 3 hours.]

The exam grade cannot be appealed.