VERB1050 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.

All fluid flows are governed by a single set of partial differential equations, the Navier-Stokes equations. This includes for instance, the aerodynamics of bumble bees and aerospace planes, the turbulence around vehicles and in the atmosphere and the convection in the sun and around a human body. The course is an in-depth advanced course in fluid mechanics, with an emphasis of understanding fluid phenomena using on the Navier-Stokes equations. The equations are derived in detail and numerous examples of solutions are presented covering viscous flows. Based on this turbulent flows will be treated with the necessary statistical tools required to describe turbulent shear flows. Aspects of experimental fluid mechanics will be covered as well. The content of the course for those interested in the design and understanding of various systems mechanical engineers will work with, e.g.,wind turbines, ship hulls, engines, or bridges.

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.

Knowledge:

The candidate

• can identify, apply and/or present derivations of mathematical models of fluid mechanical phenomena and make relevant approximations.
• can for simplified cases apply the derived models (numerically or theoretically) and is able to interpret the result.
• can relate obtained data, observed phenomena and processes in a laboratory environment to the theoretical description of fluid mechanics.

Skills:

The candidate

• can identify the building blocks constituting a real-world fluid mechanics problem to predict possible transition to turbulence, flow separation and propose flow control strategies to prevent them
• can apply the learned theory on practical examples in order to be able to work with fluid mechanical problems as an engineer.

General Competence:

The candidate

• can perform independent research and document the results in the form of a report, following the ethical protocols of research
• can communicate with peers on how computer simulations and experiments of fluid mechanical problems (such as wind farms) are built from first principles
• can critically evaluate results from simulations and experiments

Pass/fail

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

BIOB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, ERGOB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, FARB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, FYB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, RAB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, ORI1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, PMED1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, SYKK1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, SYKP1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, TAB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits, VERB1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 credits overlaps 100 %. 5 credits overlaps with SYKKPRA45/SYKPPRA45 Public Health