eHealth: Infodemiology

The aim of the course is to become acquainted with, and critically examine infodemilogy and it’s opportunities, current implementation and challenges within the field of health and welfare.

Learning outcomes:

• You are able to reflect on, discuss, and critically analyze the impact and influence of infodemiology on your own profession, as well as the health and welfare sector, and society in general. This will involve developing a thoughtful and critical attitude regarding different issues and aspects regarding infodemiology.
• You gain basic knowledge of infodemiology, enabling you to describe the challenges it presents, as well as the future opportunities that it offers to health and welfare sectors.

SDG's in focus:
#3 Good health and well-being
#4 Quality education

The study material can be found on the itslearning page of the course as well as instructions for other materials.

Students from other universities who wish to take courses at Arcada UAS through cross-institutional studies must, after having their registration approved, please visit this page to gain access to the course materials: https://www.arcada.fi/en/study-arcada/continuing-education/instructions-starting-course(Avautuu uuteen välilehteen)

This is one of the courses in the eHealth online course package of 10 credits. There is an opportunity to take anything between 1-10 credits.

Each course is structured according to the same structure as this course, where the work effort for 1 credit (one course = 1 credit = 27 hours of workload.