VERND2320 Health Issues II Course description

Teaching will follow the basic flipped classroom principles with a combination of online resources in Canvas and (digital) lectures.

None.

Supervised individual written exam

• 2 hours
• Multiple choice assignment

The assignment can be given in English or Norwegian language.

Calculator handed out by the university.

Pass/fail.

One internal and one external examiner will check the questions, and the internal examiner will check the answer papers.

The course overlaps 100% with SYK2810A and SYK2810B.

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

Knowledge

The student has advanced knowledge of

• social protection strategies, in particular related to major social risks: unemployment, sickness, disability, lack of a provider, child abuse, and old age
• the interplay between protection provided by the state, the voluntary sector, the family and the market
• principles of social insurance and health insurance
• strategies for providing residual or universal social and health assistance
• the extended family as a risk-managing institution
• problems with social protection coverage and strategies for extending coverage
• strategies for efficient delivery of health and social services
• policy evaluation methods in health and social care

Skills

The student can

• identify similarities and differences in social and health protection strategies in high-, middle-, and low-income countries
• investigate the arguments for and against public management, public/private partnerships, outsourcing and other strategies with regard to the delivery of publicly provided health and social services
• analyse processes of social/health policy implementation
• evaluate social/health policy outputs and outcomes

General competence

The student is able to

• participate in the debate on how to organise and implement social welfare and health policies, in a national as well as international context
• participate in the discussion of which evaluation strategies that are most useful in various contexts, with regard to evakuations of social welfare and health policies, in a national as well as international context
• participate in the debate concerning how to frame health and social policy goals across countries and cultures

The course is organised into a series of lectures and seminars. Students are expected to play an active role. Lectures are given by the course lecturer and invited lecturers. Students will also be required to present papers, and discuss course themes during lectures and seminars.