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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Dagnija Staķe
Study type:Part time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Social Welfare and Social Work
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Sociology; Social Politics and Organisation of Social Work

Objective

To provide knowledge of integrated health and social services management and to develop skills to coordinate interdisciplinary care.

Prerequisites

Biomedical aspects of human functioning, basics of social work, basics of public health.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

As a result of completing the study course, students will be able to do the following:
• to describe professional cooperation skills and cooperation in providing integrated care in a team;
• to describe social rehabilitation and medical rehabilitation;
• to understand the specific nature of care in risk groups (including elderly people, people with mental disorders, families with a child with special needs);
• to describe health promotion approaches (including in population groups subject to social, territorial exclusion and poverty).

Skills

• to integrate theoretical knowledge in practical classes;
• to implement an approach that meets the needs of patients and society in the provision of integrated health and social services;
• to find one's way in the regulatory framework of the field.

Competence

To understand and organise integrated health and social services.

Study course planning

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