FHV330 Public Health Science
Credits (ECTS):15
Course responsible:Marte Karoline Råberg Kjøllesdal
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Course frequency:Annually.
Nominal workload:Totally 375 hours. Organized teaching: 14 days * 5-6 h = 75 hours. Obligatory activity: 40 h. Preparation and following up work of the organized teaching and self study: 260 hours.
Teaching and exam period:The course starts up in late August and runs through the autumn parallel.
About this course
Learning outcome
Main goal: The subject should provide basic understanding of public health science, an overview of public health work on a locally, national and central level, and provide the students with skills of discussing issues in public health academically.
After passing the exam the student should:
(Knowledge)
- know the concepts of health and illness, and argue for individual, population and environment perspectives in health promoting and preventive work.
- describe public health, and determinants of health related to the society, culture and environment and individual factors in a perspective of the past, today and the future
- be able to describe and make use of central political, economic and legal decisions, relevant for public health work in the public sector, work and civil society.
- discuss the importance of integration and participation for health and describe examples of political prioritized efforts in the field.
- reflect on "nature" and "environment" as concepts and how the physical environment and climate change affects public health.
(Skills)
- discuss theories and models for behavioral change health in promotion and preventive work.
- through a practical example describe how to plan, carry out and evaluate interventions based on the responsibilities shared by the public and the private sector, including voluntary organizations, and how cost/benefit and cost/effect relevant for the intervention is calculated.
(General competence)
- be able to identify and evaluate ethical challenges and dilemmas in a human right perspective in public health
- know how to search for and present scientific and other public documentation to enlighten a public health relevant topic..
- Lectures, group work, self study, obligatory individual assignment on literature search and reporting on findings.
- Teachers are available at the workshops and through Canvas.
- Relevant studies required for acceptance for M-FOL / M-FOL-DEL
- Oral exam (up to 1/2 hour) counts for 100% of grade. A-F
Oral exam Grading: Letter grades - An external examiner evaluates the oral exam.
- Individual assignment on literature search
- 14 full-day seminar split on 5 weeks.
- M-FOL / M-FOL-DEL
- Minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway (generell studiekompetanse).