Assessing and Prioritizing risk for climate adaptation in health care (1cr)
Course unit code: SG10033
General information
- Credits
- 1 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
- Responsible person
- Marika Lappalainen, Vastuuopettaja
Objective
Risk assessment in welfare services is part of climate change adaptation. As a social and healthcare professional, it is important for you to be able to identify the needs of older people before, during, and after climate crises.
Content
The key contents of the course are:
• Social and environmental determinants of health
• Risk assessment of older adults in social and healthcare services
• Competence and well-being of social and healthcare professionals
This course is suitable for you if you want to understand risk assessment in the social and healthcare sector. Gain tools to identify the need for support and learn nursing methods that promote adaptation to climate change.
Further information
EQFQ 6