HEV9001 Health and Welfare - Approaches and Perspectives

    • Number of credits
      5
    • Teaching semester
      2024 Autumn
    • Language of instruction
      Norwegian/English
    • Campus
      Elverum, Lillehammer
Course content

  • Different scientific approaches to and perspectives on health and welfare. 

  • The concept of health and welfare in a historical context. 

  • Importance of individual, social and environmental conditions for health and welfare. 

  • The importance of an inter-scientific approach to health and welfare for research, politics, service design and performance. 

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

Candidates: 

  • have in-depth knowledge about different approaches to the concepts of health and welfare. 

  • have in-depth knowledge about how the concepts of health and welfare have evolved in a historical context.  

  • can assess the different understandings of health and welfare, and the importance they have for research, politics, and the organisation and performance of health and welfare services. 

  • can assess the appropriateness of and apply inter-scientific approaches within the subject area. 

Skills

Candidates: 

  • can formulate issues for discussion based on different understandings of health and welfare. 

  • can deal with the consequences of different approaches to and understandings of health and welfare. 

  • can critically reflect on their own theoretical starting point for research in the subject area 

General competence

Candidates: 

  • can identify ethical issues related to key concepts within the subject area. 

  • can express oral and written theoretical perspectives within the subject area. 

  • can assess and convey understandings of key concepts within the subject area, and their consequences. 

Teaching and working methods

  • Lectures. 

  • Seminars involving student presentation. 

  • Essays/task writing. 

  • Self-study 

Language of instruction: 

Teaching is mainly conducted in Scandinavian languages and English, depending on the native language of the lecturer. If there are participants who do not use Scandinavian languages, English is used as a course language. 

Required coursework

There is a requirement of 80% attendance in order to take the exam.

Form of assessment

Individual home examination consisting of an essay where the candidate’s project is discussed in light of different perspectives on health and welfare (maximum 3500 words). 

Form of assessment:

Pass/Fail 

Assessments
Form of assessmentGrading scaleGroupingDuration of assessmentSupport materialsProportionComment
Home exam
Passed - not passed
Individual

Reading list

Faculty
Faculty of Social and Health Sciences