In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2017-2018, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2018.

This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

The course covers the scope of epidemiology, basic concepts and principles, and major study types.

Tämä opintojakso on maisterivaiheen opintojakso ja on tarjonnassa joka toinen vuosi.

Enrolments by 4.9.2017

A seminar on Gender, human rights, sexual rights by guest professor Dr. Anuj Kapilashrami, the Associate Director of Global Development Academy at the University of Edinburgh and the Chair of GRAND (Gender, Rights and Development), an international network of feminist scholars and practitioners to advance gender analysis in development and health is held on Monday October 16th 2017 at 12-14 in Arvo, lecture hall F211AB.

The seminar will be held in English and it is open to all.

Recent publications by Dr Kapilashrami on gender issues:

- Alsaba, K. and Kapilashrami, A. (2016) Understanding women's experience of violence and the political economy of gender in conflict: the case of Syria. Reproductive Health Matters. Available online 31 May 2016.

- Hawkes, S., Buse K. & Kapilashrami A. (2017) Gender Blind? An Analysis of Global Public-Private Partnerships for Health. Globalization and Health 13:26.

- Kapilashrami, A., R. Bisht, and S. Ravindran (2016). Feminist Movements and Gender Politics: Transnational Perspectives on Intersectionality. The Delhi University Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences 3: 171-184

NOTE! This seminar is a compulsory part of the course PGHAS06 Gender and wellbeing in the global south and north that will be taught in period II autumn 2018. PGHAS06 is a compulsory course of the PGH programme. Therefore attendance in this seminar is strongly recommended! No pre-enrollment. No separate credits are given for this seminar only.

Enrollments to Kirsti Nurmela: kirsti.nurmela@staff.uta.fi

- Individual working

- Non-stop web course. The course will be completed entirely in Moodle

-For approval all the assignments have to be completed within six months from the date of enrollment

Enrollment:

University instructor Kirsti Nurmela: kirsti.nurmela[at]staff.uta.fi

The quota for Open University students

Enrollments to Kirsti Nurmela: kirsti.nurmela[at]staff.uta.fi

The quota for Open University students

- Individual working

- Non-stop web course. The course will be completed entirely in Moodle

- For approval all the assignments have to be completed within six months from the date of enrollment

Enrollments to Kirsti Nurmela: kirsti.nurmela[at]staff.uta.fi

The quota for Open University students

This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be two periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

List of modes of study:

* Participation in classroom work

* Exercise(s)

* Assignment

Participation in the lectures, completion of learning diary

Forced and voluntary forms of migration are current and challenging issues in an increasingly globalized world. Various crises force people to leave their homelands as refugees. Polarizing social conditions in Central Africa and the Middle East feed into the migration crises we are seeing in the Mediterranean region. Migration has its own demographics which may affect the health of the migrant in many ways, both short and long term. Also multicultural encounters within health care are explored in this course. The migration of health workers redistributes skilled health professionals and contributes to health-related disparities. The course analyses the dynamics of the global health work crisis and investigates mitigation strategies, such as skills transfer and local capacity building.

The course is offered every other year.

Participation in lectures and practicals, and submitting a research plan for a proposed epidemiologic study.

This course is available every other year.

An introduction to qualitative research methods in health sciences.

The first part of the Master's thesis seminar is completed mostly in period IV in the first year of studies. Available every second year only.

Visiting professor Sumit Kumar sumit.kumar@uta.fi

This transdisciplinary course looks at the impact of the environment and technology on health at various levels. The major global phenomena such as climate change, air and chemical pollution, with the provision of essential services such as water and sanitation, are studied.

Meeting the basic needs of populations for housing, energy and transportation improves health on one hand but on the other, introduces health risks through various forms of pollution. Food production and agriculture – necessary for survival - contributes to climate change. The course also deals with the relationship between health and technologies, including health software and its potential application in both developed and developing countries.

The planning of this course is carried out by scholars of the Tampere-3 Global Wellbeing Hub which is co-chaired by the course leader, Dr Mikko Perkiö. Many of the lecturers are from this network.

• Environment and health I

  • Mon 5.3. 10-12, F211AB. Dr. Ville Lähde, BIOS: Challenges to Health and Wellbeing in the Era of Global Environmental Changes
  • Wed 7.3. 13-15, F 213. Prof. Jukka Rintala, Tampere University of Technology (TUT): Implications of circular economy on health
  • Mon 12.3. 10-12, F211AB. Dr. Kirsi Maarit Lehto, UTA: Environmental Enteropathy as a way to understand global health

  Impacts of climate change on health

  • Wed 14.3. 10-12, F211AB. Author Risto Isomäki. How does the climate change cause danger to life?
  • Mon 19.3. 10-12, F211AB. Ass. Prof. Heikki Liimatainen, TUT: Connections between transportation, climate and health

  Environment and health II

  • Thu  22.3. 12-14, A210-211. Case Coaching
  • Mon 26.3. 13-15, F211AB. Lic.Sc. (tech.) Satu Hassi, MP: Chemical pollution as a global threat for health
  • Wed 28.3. 13-15, F211AB. Prof Jaakko Kukkonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute: Air pollution and its impacts on health
  • Wed 11.4. 10-12, F211AB. Dr. Jutta Pulkki, UTA: EcoHealth, OneHealth, Ecosocial health – tell the difference

  Appropriate technologies for health

  • Mon 16.4. 13-15, A210-211. Prof. Tommi Mikkonen, University of Helsinki: Software as a component for better health
  • Wed 18.4. 10-12, F211AB. Adj. Prof, UNESCO chair, Tapio Katko, TUT, Water supply and sanitation innovations as means to well-being
  • Mon 23.4. 13-15, Sen. Advisor Oras Tynkkynen, SITRA: Sustainable solutions from optimal combinations of business, politics and technology
  • Wed 9.5. 10-12, F211AB. Prof. Jari Hyttinen, TUT: How much modern medicine and health care rely on technology and engineering?

This course is intended for students to think critically about the challenges that governments encounter in regulating tobacco products that generate tax revenue, but incur medical costs for treating chronic illness. The course is taught from an interdisciplinary perspective with a strong emphasis on the role that public health science has played in shaping tobacco control policy. The course examines the supply and demand for tobacco from the perspectives of the industry and consumer, respectively. As such, the focal point is the epidemiologic triad connecting the agent (tobacco product), host (tobacco user), and environment (e.g., tobacco marketing) to the vector (tobacco industry).Contemporary topics include tobacco harm reduction and tobacco endgame strategies. The course culminates in a group project illustrating the role of various parties involved in the production of tobacco, distribution, marketing, policymaking, regulation, litigation, public health and advocacy.

The course teacher is UTA Visiting Professor David Timberlake.

The preliminary topics of lectures are listed below. The lectures will be held at following times:

6.3. at 9-11 Introduction & practicalities  (Katri-Maria Järvinen)
13.3. at 9-11 The Nordic Healthcare System(Katri Sieberg)
20.3. at 9-11 Care Policies for Older People in Transition: the Case of Finland (Anneli Anttonen)
22.3. at 14-16 Basic Income and Nordic Welfare State (Johanna Perkiö)
27.3. at 9-11 Gender in/equality in Nordic working life: welfare state paradox revisited (Armi Mustosmäki)
5.4. at 8-10 Universalism (Antti Halmetoja)
10.4 at 9-11 Childcare policies (Katja Repo)
12.4 at 9-11 The Nordic Model of Industrial Relations (Markku Sippola)
17.4 at 9-11 Income inequality and poverty (Elina Tuominen)
to 19.4. at 8-10 Conclusion & essay instructions (Katri-Maria Järvinen)

Lecturers and topics:

Health care system frameworks – Ilmo Keskimäki

Health care reforms – Juha Teperi

Health system governance – Juhani Lehto

Health in All Policies – Eeva Ollila

Financing health care and social protection – Katri Sieberg

Delivering health care – Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

International trade, globalization and health care – Meri Koivusalo

Health care workforce – Timo Sinervo

Universal Access to Care – Sanjay Pattanshetty

­Social protection in Europe – Juho Saari

Social protection and health ­– Salla Atkins

Capacity Development for Social Protection – Timo Voipio

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) - Social Cohesion and Health Issues in Global Agenda 2030­ –Sauli Rouhinen

Universal trends or specific trajectories? Causes and consequences of social policy development in North and South, East and West – Olli Kangas