HEL600 Critical Perspectives on Health Challenges and Health Promotion (Vår 2026)

On successful completion of the course, the candidate:

Knowledge

• is at the international forefront of knowledge of selected health challenges at local, national and international level
• can evaluate the appropriateness and usefulness of various methods and processes of social and cultural dimensions of health promotion

Skills

• can formulate research questions, plan and carry out research about health science and health promotion at an international level
• can analyse and handle complex academic questions and challenge established knowledge and practice within health science and health promotion

General competence

• can identify new and relevant ethical issues within health science and carry out his/her research with scholarly integrity
• can participate in debates within health science and health promotion in international forums

• Health promotion related to demographic, political and socioeconomic changes
• Health promotion: critical perspectives; health promotion at a local level
• Health challenges of today¿s Western society
• Health, moral and ethical issues

Participation at obligatory lectures and seminars and group work.

Oral presentation and examination for max 1 hour. The examination will be linked to obligatory literature and group work. The exam will be assessed to pass or fail.