SYKKPRA40 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Course description

The course forms a theoretical and practical basis for assessing choices and methods that are relevant both in current and future medical diagnostics and research. This comprises immunological, biochemical, cell and molecular biology methods. A selection of these methods are used in the practical work.

The student must have been admitted to the study programme. The course is also offered as an individual course.

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

Knowledge

The student

• is capable of reflecting on health promoting and preventive work at the individual-, group- and society level with focus on healthy, vulnerable and marginalised groups
• is capable of describing conditions that influence children and adolescent’s formative environment and how activity and well-being are significant for health, welfare and the prevention of disease for all groups of the population
• is capable of describing key issues related to women’s health
• is capable of describing key issues related to sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases
• is capable of describing how migration, refugee and judicial status can affect each person’s health
• has knowledge about the importance of appreciative communication with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians*
• can explain children and adolescents’ right to participation in decisions that concern them*
• can explain the importance of explorative approaches in cooperation with children and adolescents*

Skills

The student is capable of

• exploring how social health determinants are significant to public health and work inclusion at the individual and group level
• using knowledge of pregnancy, birth and the post-partum period
• completing a project under supervision and disseminating the results
• carry out a conversation about everyday life with children and adolescents*
• have appreciative communication with parents/guardians*

Competence

The student is capable of

• discussing the connection between social health determinants and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• reflecting on the health risks of people who live with demanding caregiving tasks, drug addictions in the family, and people who have experienced neglect or domestic violence
• can reflect on their own role in explorative conversation with children, adolescents and their parent/guardians*
• understands the importance of interprofessional cooperation with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians*

Work and teaching methods include lectures, laboratory courses, seminars with oral student presentations and discussions, group work and self-study.

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

• project-based practical training, 3 weeks, compulsory attendance of 90 %
• INTER1200, Individual log. Scope: 500 words (+/- 10%). In order to write the log, the student must first attend a seminar over two days.

Exam content: The learning outcomes

Exam form: Individual oral exam, up to 30 minutes

None

Grade scale A-F.

One external and one internal examiner will assess all the exams.

Basic technical laboratory skills in methods in biochemistry and cell biology at bachelor’s degree level.