Social and Health Care Services in FinlandLaajuus (3 cr)

Objectives

The student
- knows the history, structure, principles, service deliveries and basic legislation of the social-, health- and rehabilitation systems;
- knows in general the practices of the social and health care professions;
- knows the actual challenges of the social-, health- and rehabilitation systems

Content

- the ideology of welfare and its development;
- guiding principles of the central legislation;
- official control of the professions of social and health care;
- public politics;
- the structure and options of the service system (public, private and third sector);
- the basic concepts and questions of the economy;
- the challenges of service integration, ageing, client-focus, technology, digitalisation, medicalisation, multi-culturalism and economics

Prerequisites

none