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SYT3411

Public Health - children and young people

New from the academic year 2025/2026

Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Oral exam

About

About the course

Course content

Cource content:

Good health and quality of life in adolescence provide a basis for a good life course for the individual and for sustainable social development. The course focuses on health-promoting and preventive factors in the upbringing environment and on welfare systems that can counteract social health inequalities. The course provides an overview of existing knowledge about the greatest public health challenges of adolescence, and the prevailing international and national political guidelines in the field. The course will particularly focus on the everyday arenas of young people (family, local environment, kindergarten and school) where health is created and threatened, and where there is an opportunity to implement universal and targeted measures against the entire and/or vulnerable groups of the child and youth population (individual, group and population). This also includes an in-depth introduction to the rights of children and young people related to the aforementioned everyday arenas. The course also covers how children and young people can participate in both public health work, service development and research.

Learning outcome

After completing the course, the student should:

Knowledge:

  • have in-depth insight into the child and adolescent population, its health, quality of life and living conditions, with a focus on Norwegian conditions.
  • have in-depth insight into children's and young people's rights
  • have knowledge of the importance of children's and young people's everyday life arenas in public health work
  • have knowledge of the importance of collaborative competence, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral public health work for children and young people
  • have insight into knowledge-based public health work aimed at the health of children and young people
  • have insight into public health and public health work for children and young people in a contemporary, life-course and generational perspective

Skills:

  • be able to obtain, critically assess and apply knowledge about the state of public health and examples of measures that may be relevant to children and young people and reflect ethically on them
  • be able to apply relevant methods for the participation and involvement of children and young people in planning public health work and service development
  • be able to communicate professional issues regarding public health among children and young people to different target groups (children/young people, the general public, decision-makers and professionals)
  • ability to take a critical analytical look at the current political guidelines within public health work for children and young people

General competence:

  • Be able to see the connection between the public health status among children and young people and available instruments for health promotion and preventive measures and contribute to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of measures aimed at the family, local environment, kindergarten and school
  • Be able to see the connection between the structural level and the individual level when it comes to identifying children and young people's health and welfare problems as well as resources

Learning methods and activities

Pedagogical organization: Lecture, seminar, group assignment, self-study, peer response. The teaching takes place in Trondheim.

Compulsory assignments

  • Written assignment
  • Participation in seminar with presentation and peer response

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Public Health (MFHLS)
Public Health Nursing (MHELSP)

Required previous knowledge

Bachelor's degree in health and social sciences or equivalent.

Course materials

To be stated at the start of the course.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
FH3011 7.5 sp Autumn 2025
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Health Science
  • Public Health

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Public Health and Nursing

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Oral exam
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

Oral exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code A Date Release 2025-12-04
Submission 2025-12-05
Time Release 08:00
Submission 16:00
Duration 1 hours

Re-sit examination - Summer 2026

Oral exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code A Duration 1 hours