Expertise and Leadership in Health PromotionLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The purpose is that you get the skills to act as a demanding level expert in health and well-being in public, private and third sector organizations. You will learn how to lead and coordinate the activities of promoting well-being and health in various organizations and in stakeholder cooperation.

After attending the course, you will have the following skills:
Anticipatory development (You know how to leads the development of new, forward-looking solutions and produces new information using various research and development methods)
Learning to learn (You promote your own and your work community's continuous learning and skill development, utilizing knowledge from different fields and the possibilities of digitalization)
Functioning in working life (Your abilities to develop and lead your work community and to reform working life)
Sustainable development (You develop sustainable and responsible operating methods in your work and support sustainability change in your work community and society)

Learning outcomes:
After completing the course, you will know the international requirements for health and well-being promotion expertise and strategic management. You will be able to critically evaluate your own health and well-being promotion expertise and strive for its continuous development, learning together and sharing expertise. You can evaluate future-oriented, critically and sustainable development perspectives, taking into account changes in your own industry and services and their effects on health and well-being promotion activities. You know how to activate and cooperate with networks and stakeholders in order to promote the implementation of the health and promotion strategy and evidence-based activities. You will use evidence-based health promotion management tools when developing and managing well-being and health promotion activities.

Content

Expertise in health promotion management
Health promotion strategies and programme
Network and stakeholder collaboration in health promotion management
Evidence-based health promotion management tools
Evaluation of the effectiveness of health promotion
Sustainable development

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Passing the course
The student is able to critically evaluate his or her own health promotion expertise according to the international assessment criteria and to present his or her own development targets in health promotion competence. During the course the student demonstrates the ability to learn together and share expertise. He or she examines changes in his field of activity and services, and their impact on health promotion and management, in a future-oriented and critical way. The student knows what kind of networks and stakeholders are involved in health promotion activities in his or her field of activity. He or she will adopt a variety of networking and stakeholder engagement and collaborative working methods to help implement the health promotion strategy and develop research-based activities. Students will be able to use research-based health promotion management tools to develop and lead well-being and health promotion activities in public, private or non-governmental organizations.