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Strategic foundations for social and health care activities

Structure Type: Study unit
Code: SSYS1502
Curriculum: SSY 2023
Level: Master of Health Care / Master of Social Services
Year of Study: 1 (2023-2024)
Semester: Autumn
Credits: 6 cr
Responsible Teacher: Häyry, Riitta
Language of Instruction: Finnish

Courses During the Academic Year 2023-2024

Impl.Group(s)Study TimeTeacher(s)LanguageEnrolment
3004S-SY-23S, SSY2023-1Y2023-08-01 – 2023-12-31Riku Niemistö, Virpi VälimaaFinnish2023-08-01 – 2023-09-06

Still need to take the course? See the courses during the academic year 2024-2025.

Learning Outcomes

The student knows
- how to illustrate the politico-administrative system of social and health care and municipal administration as part of it
- how to illustrate central international and national targets and programs for social and health policy and put them into practice in management and development context in social and health care services
- processes of strategy work and act customer-oriented in different processes in service production
- how to illustrate guidance and monitoring systems within Health and Social Services, knows the main contents of guiding acts, regulations and statutes, and is able to apply them in daily professional setting
- how to recognize central administrative procedures

Student's Workload

Total work load of the course 162 h, of which scheduled studies 24 h and autonomous studies 137 h.
The assesment of student's own learning 1 h is included in contact lessons.

Contents

- Politico-administrative system of social and health care
- International and national strategies and areas of focus of social and health care
- Strategy-based actions
- Social law and administrative procedures

Regional Impact

The student gets to know local politico-administrative system and strategies as a part of international and national social and health care system

Internationality

The student knows the international guidance, strategies and areas of focus of social and health care
and EU social politics.

Recommended or Required Reading and Other Learning Resources/Tools

Material pointed out by the lecturer

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Contact teaching, guided network studies (Moodle) and independent studies

Assessment Criteria

Grade 1: The student

- describes as an example the politico-administrative system of social and health care and municipal administration as part of it
- describes as an example the central international and national targets and programs for social and health policy and applies them as an example in management and development context in social and health care services
- describes as an example processes of strategy work
- describes as an example guidance and monitoring systems within Health and Social Service and the main contents of guiding acts, regulations and statutes
- describes as an example the central administrative procedures

Grade 3: The student
- describes as an example the politico-administrative system of social and health care and municipal administration as part of it and applies the knowledge in a familiar context
- describes the central international and national targets and programs for social and health policy and applies them as an example in management and development context in social and health care services and applies the knowledge in a familiar context
- describes the processes of strategy work and applies the knowledge in a familiar context
- describes the guidance and monitoring systems within Health and Social Service and the main contents of guiding acts, regulations and statutes and applies the knowledge in a familiar context
- describes the central administrative procedures and applies the knowledge in a familiar context
Grade 5: The student
- examines analytically the politico-administrative system of social and health care and municipal administration as part of it and applies the knowledge in a new context with proper and analytic justifications
- examines analytically the central international and national targets and programs for social and health policy and applies the knowledge in a new management and development context with justifications
- masters the processes of strategy work and applies the knowledge in a new context
- examines analytically the guidance and monitoring systems within Health and Social Service and the main contents of guiding acts, regulations and statutes and applies the knowledge in a new context with proper and analytic justifications
- examines analytically the central administrative procedures and applies the knowledge in a new context with proper and analytic justifications

Assessment Methods

The grade of the study module compounds of grades of independent learning assignments (60 %) and literature examination (30 %) and self-evaluation (10 %). Numeric evaluation (0–5).


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