SYKK2200 Public Health Course description

The course focuses on evidence-based public health work, with particular emphasis on health promotion and preventive efforts in community health services. Central themes include understanding how health challenges are distributed in the population. Therefore, you will learn how factors such as education, employment, living conditions, and the environment influence disease, health, and quality of life in the population at individual, group, and societal levels. The environment in which children and young people grow up is also part of the course.

In community health services, nurses have a significant responsibility to offer care and guidance to various population groups, including healthy individuals, vulnerable populations, and marginalised groups. One topic of discussion is how the development of service offerings and the use of technology in healthcare impact social, ethical, and political issues.

In this course, you will gain insight into scientific methods and undertake a group project related to practical internship (3 weeks), during which you will plan and execute a project under supervision. This project work provides the group with the opportunity to explore a chosen area of concern and employ suitable methods for data collection and analysis. The results will be presented orally as well as in written form as a project assignment.

In this course, you study together with students who are on exchange to OsloMet and much of the teaching is arranged with English-speaking groups.

Emnet Matematikk og matematikkdidaktikk 2 handler om undervisning i matematikk. Emnet gir teoretiske perspektiver på undervisning i matematikk, herunder også tilpasset opplæring og læringsorientert vurdering i matematikk. Studentene fordyper seg i litteratur om algebraundervisning. Noe av undervisningen kan bli gitt på engelsk.

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

Knowledge

The student

• can describe the purpose, organisation, and coordination of health and social services and be aware of relevant laws and regulations
• can describe the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their significance for public health
• can explain how patients' health literacy affects lifestyle changes and shared decision-making
• can explain the relationship between work, social participation, and health
• can discuss factors influencing the environment in which children and young people grow up, and explain how activity and well-being affect health, well-being, and disease prevention for all population groups
• can describe key issues related to women's health
• can describe key issues related to sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases
• can explain how migration, displacement, and legal status can impact an individual's health
• can reflect on health promotion and prevention work at individual, group, and societal levels, emphasising how digital solutions can support preventive strategies and health-promoting measures
• can describe fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and tools behind digitalisation and explain how digitalisation shapes public and private life
• can describe the impact of digitalisation, technology availability, and the importance of digital competence on people's lives, public health, and social health disparities
• can describe social inequality in health and be aware of national and global consequences of inequality
• can explain how research can contribute to knowledge development to understand public health and societal needs, such as technological advancement
• have knowledge of how different issues guide relevant research methods

Skills

The student

• can reflect on ethical aspects related to public health efforts aimed at behavior change
• can identify various health promotion and preventive strategies and measures and evaluate them considering the Sustainable Development Goals
• can reflect on the Sami people's status as indigenous people related to the design of health and social services
• can provide examples of how digital solutions can affect social determinants related to health and lifestyle
• can apply professional knowledge and scientific methods to plan and execute a project in health promotion and preventive work
• can reflect on quality concepts in qualitative versus quantitative methods such as validity, reliability, validity, and reliability
• can reflect on ethical dilemmas related to the collection and use of health data in various contexts
• can identify ethical challenges in the use of health technology in the health service
• can master general first aid

General competence

The student

• can discuss factors influencing disease, health, and quality of life in groups or the population as a whole
• can discuss how technology and digital strategies can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
• can reflect on health risks in individuals dealing with demanding caregiving tasks, family substance abuse problems, individuals who have experienced neglect and/or violence in close relationships
• can discuss how digital technologies can build and influence interprofessional collaboration in healthcare
• can reflect on how different methodological choices can yield different types of knowledge
• knows measures to preserve life and health in the event of major accidents and in crisis and disaster situations

Lectures, teaching programs from the University Library, project-based practical training (five weeks) group work, first aid course, self-study, and participation with presentations at seminars.

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

Part 1

• Project-based practical training, 90 % attendance of timetabled activity marked as compulsory.

Part 2

• Course i first aid

Faget er organisert med forelesninger, seminargrupper og selvstendig arbeid. I faget vil de faglige og de didaktiske aspektene i sterk grad integreres. Studentene skal gjennomføre arbeidskrav i løpet av faget, både individuelt og i grupper. Det dreier seg om arbeid med og refleksjoner rundt elevers arbeid med matematikk, gjennomføring av korte undervisningsopplegg/observasjoner, drøfting av ulike typer matematikkfaglige oppgaver med mer. Noen av arbeidskravene kan bli knyttet til arbeid i veiledet praksis, for studenter som har dette.

Retten til å avlegge eksamen forutsetter godkjente arbeidskrav og deltakelse i bestemte faglige aktiviteter. Å utvikle "inngående kunnskap" som læringsutbyttebeskrivelsene krever, forutsetter at man også har anledning til drøftinger, muntlig og skriftlig. Det er også læringsutbyttebeskrivelser som krever planlegging, gjennomføring og evaluering av undervisning. På denne bakgrunn er det følgende arbeidskrav:

• Studenten skal delta i drøfting av fagstoff i minst sju seminarøkter. I minst tre av disse skal studenten individuelt eller i gruppe legge fram og drøfte et oppgitt fagstoff, tidsramme om lag 20 minutter per gang.
• En skriftlig oppgave i gruppe knyttet til planlegging, gjennomføring og evaluering av undervisning av elever. Omfang 5000 ord +/- 10 %.

For studenter på masterstudium skolerettet utdanningsvitenskap må i tillegg følgende arbeidskrav gjennomføres:

• Studentene skal innen fastsatt frist levere en skisse på 1800 ord +/- ti prosent for masteroppgaven. Gjennom arbeidskravet skal studentene se emnet i sammenheng med masteroppgaven og vise en forståelse for hva som er faglig relevante temaer å arbeide videre med. Når skissen for masteroppgaven er levert, vil studenten få tildelt veileder for masteroppgaven.

Individuell muntlig eksamen på ca. 30 minutter.

Ny/utsatt eksamen

Ny/utsatt eksamen arrangeres som ved ordinær eksamen.

Studentene kan ha med det skriftlige arbeidskravet til eksamen.

• 5 ECTS overlap with xx1050 Public Health and Health Management, 5 ECTS.
• 5 ECTS overlap with SYKK/SYKPPRA40 Promotion of Health and Prevention of Illness, 5

ECTS.

• 10 ECTS overlap with SYKK/PPRA45 Public Health, 10 ECTS.
• 20 ECTS overlap with med SYK2900 Public Health in a Global Perspective, 20 ECTS.
• SYKK2200x, SYKP2200x and SYKD2200 are fully overlapping.