Health and activity

Activity analysis, activity balance, ICF

The purpose of the course is for the students to understand the relationship between the activities of human beings and their experience with health. They will know how the international set of rules form a body of regulations for work in the health sector. Students will acquire insight into the core competencies of occupational therapy, and into important models for work in practice concerning adaption and intervention.

Knowledge: The student will be able to:
-Explain the connection between the daily activities of human beings and their health and quality of life
-Be oriented about WHO¿s Framework within the field of health and the UNs Resolution on Human Rights
-Understand and reproduce ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health)
- have awareness to health and function on both the levels of the individual and that of the society

Skills: The student will be able to:
-Account for how activity can contribute to people achieving goals that imply an increased experience of life quality, and be able to describe the interaction between the individual, activity and the environment
-Plan and implement an activity analysis
-Analyse how an activity is performed in the individual¿s daily environment on the basis of the requirements in order to perform the activity.

General competence: The student will be able to:
-Have knowledge of theories and models within the area of activity and health
-Have knowledge of the importance of activity balance (meaning a survey of and mapping out of the activity pattern of daily life with the intention of clarifying an adapted amount of activity with the right balance between work, rest, spare time and social activities)
-Have knowledge of the basic methods within the fields of new ideas and innovation

The course uses PBL as a learning Method, peer evaluations and working in basic units in addition to lectures, skills practice, seminars, papers, lab exercises and self-study.

Approved obligatory attendance and mandatory assignments in the course. Obligatory attendance is more fully described in the curriculum and in the course schedules.