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Public Health and Health Management


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Public Health and Health Management

Learn the purpose of public health, the main functions of public health, national and international levels of public health, key-terms of public health and some basic epidemiology. We also look at sustainable development goals as a framework for public health work.

You will also find the topic Norwegian health system predominantly covered in Norwegian.

Requirements

This course has no prerequisites.

Editor-in-Chief

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Marthe Rambøl Bjørknes

Assistant Professor at the farmacology department at Oslo Metropolitan University.

Author

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David Jahanlu

Assistant Professor, dept. of Bioengineering, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan Univeristy. David's main field of research involves quantitative methods in medical studies, and applied statistics. David has made most of the animated videos in this course.

Media Editor

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Gabi Hurlen

Video and content producer, open access advocate and self-proclaimed netizen. Gabi works full time with OsloMetX, she has a masters degree in media studies and thinks teachers with 100k views on YouTube and Film.oslomet.no should get some sort of reward and recognition from their employer.

Contributors

Anne Langaas

Hilde Sylliaas

Sara Vikestad

Lisbeth Normann

Mikkel Magnus Thørrisen

Emma Vestli

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