Client-Centered Social and Health Services

What will you learn?

The student is able
– to describe current challenges of population’s health and well-being as well as factors affecting them
– to describe the indicators of health and well-being as well as the meaning of knowledge when identifying and organizing services
– to describe social and health services organization and legislation
– to describe social security system,
– to search for information of social and health services to clients in different life situations
– to recognize the meaning of multiprofessionality in the perspective of service needs
– to act more securely and understand the responsibility for promoting security

What do the studies include?

1. The status of the population’s health and well-being
– current challenges and factors affecting them
– promotion of health and functional ability, prevention of illnesses and accidents
– registers and statistics

2. Social and health services
– social and health care organization and development of it, funding, responsibilities, control/monitoring and client’s and patient’s rights
– social and health services
– income security
– searching information about social and health services and benefits

3. Security in social and health care

The content and schedules are specified on the Itslearning platform.

All communication of the course takes place on the Itslearning platform. Please contact the teacher of the course if you cannot access the Itslearning platform.

This course is open in a certain time and all the sections should be done on schedule.
Teachers will check that you have done all the sections acceptably and then give you a grade (approved/failed) in Peppi.

To pass this course:

To complete the course, all of sections materials must be studied and the assignments should be done in the given order (first section 1, then section 2 etc.).

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Themes:
1. Population`s Health and Well-Being
2. Organizing wellbeing Services
3. Social and health services
4. Income support
5. Comparison

(Sections: Information security, Rehabilitation and Client guidance and counseling case work are not included in this implementation)

You will have all the needed materials and assignments linked in this Itslearning platform.

After studying all the sections, go to “tila ja seuranta” – “arviointikirja” (eng. status and follow up – assessment record) and make sure to check that you had done all the sections acceptably.