FHV330 Public Health Science

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..