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Basic health promotion and nutrition (5 cr)

Code: HY00EP38-3020

General information


Enrollment

18.03.2024 - 28.03.2024

Timing

06.05.2024 - 31.07.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Department of Social Services and Health Care, Savonlinna

Campus

Ecampus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 200

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Niina Luukkonen
  • Pirjo Heimo
  • Alina Jurvanen
  • Sari Engelhardt
  • Johanna Koskenniemi
  • Sirpa Gardemeister

Groups

  • SHKT24KM
    Nursing, part-time studies
  • SHSA24KM
    Nursing, part-time studies
  • EHKT24KM
    Emergency Care, part-time studies
  • THMI24KM
    Health care, part-time studies
  • SHMI24KM
    Nursing, part-time studies

Objective

Health promotion
You understand the basis and levels of health and welfare promotion.
You recognize the protective and strengthening factors of individual and community health and global health threats and challenges.
You can search and apply statistical information about the welfare of the population and draw conclusions about public health.
You understand the possibilities of welfare technology in health promotion.
You understand the consequence of health inequalities in the population and you can affect them.
You understand the ethical principles of health promotion.

Nutrition
You know how to apply Finnish nutrition and treatment recommendations for different age and target groups in preventing and nursing national diseases.
You know how to integrate nutritional care and guidance into comprehensive nursing in cooperation with a network of multisectoral experts.
You can take into account sustainable development and ethics in nutritional care and guidance.
You can assess the nutritional status of a customer/patient and refer the customer/patient in the risk of malnutrition to an expert.

Content

Health promotion
What is the basis of welfare and health promotion?
What are the levels of promotion and prevention of health?
What kind of factors protect and strenghten health?
How do you co-operate with the third sector in health and welfare promotion?
What are current global challenges and threats in health promotion?
How you can apply statistical information about the welfare of the population?
What opportunities there are in welfare analytics, health tchnology and artificial intelligence in health promotion?
What kind of consequences are in health inequality and how you can affect them?
How can you take into account ethics in health promotion?

Nutrition
What are Finnish nutrition recommendations for different age groups?
How you apply the contents of nutrition recommendations in dietary habits of the client?
How you can take into account sustainable development and ethics in dietary habits of the client?
How you apply nutrition care and preventive nutrition guidance on the basis of recommendations?

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

No prerequisites