Basic Issues in Public Health and Health Sciences Research, Part 3.
Study facts
| Course code | MEDGRSAM3 |
| Study level | PhD level |
| Belongs to | Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care |
Course description
Language of instruction
Norwegian
Course content
The course will enlighten theory and history of science and different areas of topics with specific relevance to public health and health sciences. The course aims to stimulate reflection and identity.
Day 1: Risk, probability and causality
Newer causality trends in statistics, the quantum leap from epidemiology to individual risk, and the uncertain, are presented and discussed. Responsible: Professor Anne Kjersti Daltveit
Day 2: Medicine, power and medicalization
"Medicine, power and medicalization" aims to examine the power of definition, technology and ideology in medicine. In this seminar we discuss how power arise, is practised and work within medicine, the health services and in research. Responsible: Professor Edvin Schei
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
After completing the course, the students should be able to:
- Be familiar with basic elements in scientific and humanistic/social studies science related to public health and health science.
- Understand and be aware of different norms and ways of thinking in the two science traditions, and how these have developed during history, and internationally.
- Understand important theories and concepts in public health and health sciences, know what they include, and how they are used in practical health science.
Skills:
After completing the course, the students should be able to:
- Formulate and use relevant methods from different science traditions in their own research.
- Discuss and use relevant concepts in their own research, and in the discussion be aware that the concepts may be equivocal and problematic.
- Contribute in developing interdisciplinary research projects, and other ways of cooperation.
General skills:
After completing the course, the students should be able to:
- Cooperate across science traditions and research milieus.
- Obtain an extended network of cooperators and resources in and outside of their own field of research.
- Hold the ability to demonstrate critical and creative thinking.
- Pass on research with the ambition to reach a wider audience than fellow researchers in their own field.
Study period
Autumn 2014
Credits (ECTS)
2 ECTS credits
Specific terms
Form of assessment
Based upon active participation
Pass/fail
Who may participate
PhD
Addtional information
Programme
Autumn 2014
Contact
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
e-mail: studie@isf.uib.no
Aina Schøitz
e-mail: aina.schiotz@isf.uib.no