Health protectionLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can carry out risk-based supervision and you know the regulations concerning health protection. You can give instructions in fault and special situations.
You know how health protection supervision is organized in Finland and what roles and responsibilities each organization has.
You can identify and evaluate the impacts of different procedures on humans, health and environment.

Content

How to act in cases of food or water based epidemics? How to report on epidemics? How to prepare for the impacts of climate change maintaining the targets of environment and health protection? How do the roles of occupational health and safety and health protection supervision differ and what kind of cooperation is there?

Qualifications

Attending the course requires completing the course of Basics of environmental health or equivalent knowledge.

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b. evaluate information sources critically.
c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.