Hilde Sylliaas
Assistant Professor at Institute of Physiotherapy, at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University. Hilde's main field of reserch involves rehabilitation, individual and societal perspectives and scervises.
Public Health
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Enrollment is Closed
About This Course
In this digital course, you are going to learn about the purpose of public health, the main functions of public health, national and international levels of public health, key-terms of public health and some basic epidemiology. What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic? What means of disease prevention exists? How do we estimate the mortality rate of a viral outbreak?
This course also covers the topics "Norwegian health system" and "Health legislation" (in Norway). These two topics are predominantly covered in Norwegian.
Requirements
This course has no prerequisites.
Editor
Teachers
David Jahanlu
Assistant Professor, dept. of Bioengineering, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan Univeristy. David's main field of research involves quantitative methods in medical studies, and applied statistics. David has made most of the animated videos in this course.
Sara Vikestad
Teaching consultant and e-learning specialist Sara Vikestad has contributed to several publications in Bokskapet, including Anatomy and Physiology, and Pathology. After finishing her teacher education and teaching for a year, Sara has returend to OsloMet currently studying to become a paramedic.
Media Editor
Gabi Hurlen
Video and content producer, open access advocate and self-proclaimed netizen. Gabi is Bokskapet's sole surviving 100%-er, she has a masters degree in media studies and thinks teachers with thousands of views on YouTube and Film.oslomet.no should get some sort of reward and recognition from their employer.
Contributors
Lisbeth Normann
Mikkel Magnus Thørrisen
Emma Vestli
Licence
This document is published with Creative Commons licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).
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Disclaimer
This course does not meet all requirements for universal design. The course team is working to imporve both universal design and the chapter on health legislation. These improvements may be in place by 2021.
I Bokskapet jobber vi med å utforme alle våre læreverk etter gjeldene retningslinjer for Universal Utforming, WCAG 2.1. Vi beklager at det fortsatt er mangler når det gjelder teksting av undervisningsvideoer og alternativ tekst til illustrasjoner. Revisjonsarbeid pågår løpende gjennom semesteret og oppdateres i Bokskapet før semesterstart. For spørsmål/ innspill om universell utforming, ta kontakt med [email protected]