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Social and Health Care Services in Finland (3 cr)

Code: 7K00CT59-3030

General information


Enrolment period
02.07.2018 - 30.09.2018
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
01.08.2018 - 31.12.2018
Implementation has ended.
Credits
3 cr
Local portion
3 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Unit
Social Services
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
Finnish
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
Toni Leander
Ilona Jylhäsalo
Person in charge
Toni Leander
Course
7K00CT59

Objectives (course unit)

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 (course unit)

- 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 (course unit)

none

Location and time

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Learning materials

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