Health needs are often accompanied by the social care needs. Sometimes the health effect gain is achieved when social care services are provided parallely. Such co-existence of social and health needs relates to a certain category of people with respect to their age (e.g. children or the elderly), gender (women in procreative age), problems related to chronic and mental diseases as well as various disabilities and finally problems which are associated with health risk such as occupational health hazards, which are dealt with by the same institutions.
More holistic approach to the health needs including social care provision requires a new dimension of both the health care institutions and health care professionals who would understand these problems, who have interdisciplinary qualifications and who are able to unite Health and social issues.

Place and language

Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
English

Goals

The aim of this specialization is to acquire by the students knowledge of the social and health problems which co-exist in the population and to show them the system of the institutions which deal with the support and provide health care and social protection to facilitate healthy life and social inclusion in the national, European and global context

Openings

The graduates can expect to be employed in the following positions as:

• Health policy specialist and planner
• Coordinator of health and social protection programs
• Health promotion and education specialist
• Controller
• Director/manager of health and social protection institutions
• Case manager
• Social worker

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
230	900	30