Study Guide
Study Guide
#savoniaUAS
Curricula starting in 2022 and earlier
Savonia's new Study Guide (curriculum starting in 2023 and after) can be found here.
| Basis of Education | Competence Standards | Structure of Studies | Development of Expertise | Methods and implementation | Course Table |
Course Description
| Code | 4 TYGEL90 |
| Name | Health Forecast - future causes of death |
| Credits | 5 ects |
| Objectives | Student - understands tools for predicting future health events - identifies the importance of diseases in different countries - understands the different effect of epidemics and pandemics - generates the predictive models and validate them using different sets of similar historical data - understands how physical activity, obesity and all-cause mortality influence future death - analyses health care systems in different countries and put them into context with future death - understands epidemiology and ist effect on health forecast - learns how to create Health Forecasting Model |
| Content | - Development of health forecasting methods - Development of a policy on immunisation and improving health care. - Analysis of different diseases and explore the importance for public health - Impact of diseases on female and male - Impact of diseases on different racial and ethnic environments - Interdisciplinarity of different diseases and exploration of the importance for public health |
| Requirements | Independent studies, seminars |
| Grading Scale | 0 - 5 |
| Course material | Moodle and other platform learning environment contains materials |
| Prerequisites | |
| Other Considerations | Online lectures, learning tasks, web-discussions/presentations |
| Contact | Kouri Pirkko |
We reserve the right to make changes to the curriculum due to the need to update the content being studied.