Social and Health Care and Rehabilitation Environment (3cr)

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

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

The student
- is able to name the concepts of the social, health and rehabilitation service system and is able to describe the main principles of the system.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

The student
- is able to name the concepts of the social health and rehabilitation service system and is able to describe the main principles of the system.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

The student
- is able to describe and specify the suitability and manner of organisation of the social, health and rehabilitation service system in accordance with the individual needs of the client.

Exam schedules

Online-exam 21.4.
Retake Online 1: 14.5.
Retake Online 2: 28.5.

Assessment methods and criteria

Graded:
50% of the grade is seminar work and 50% is theory exam.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lectures, reading groups, group work visits/interviews, individual work, seminar

Learning materials

Robichaux, Catherine. 2017.Ethical Competence in Nursing Practice : Competencies, Skills, Decision-Making (ebook):
- Chapter 9 by Joan Kub: Public Health Ethics and Social Justice in the Community, p. 209 on,
- Chapter 11: Exploring Ethical Issues related to Emerging Technology in Health care.

PALOMA-training:
Episode 2: Diverse Population of Finland
Episode 12. Primary Health Care Belongs to All
Episode 13. Specialised Medical Care Perspective
Available at: https://thl.fi/en/web/migration-and-cultural-diversity/support-material/paloma-training

The material available on/ via the course tabula platform.

Student workload

81 hours of which 18 hours contact lessons.

Completion alternatives

none

Further information

In orientation and seminar participation is mandatory
Up-dates of this implementation plan are done before the orientation of the course.