Community- and Home Based Rehabilitation - Cultural Perspectives, 7.5 credits

30 ECTS in occupational therapy or other topic (for ex. nursing, physiotherapy) from a foregin institution.

The overall goals is that the student should, on completion of the course be able to:

• define and present central concepts in the field of community rehabilitation (CBR) and home-based rehabilitation (HBR)
• integrate and describe these concepts from a global context, focusing on assessments and interventions in the home, neighbourhood and community
• identify and describe population demographics, service in the health care system and how rehabilitation in the home and in society is delivered
• recognize and describe the care and rehabilitation from the context of different countries and and compare and reflect in relation to the population in a global context.
• identify and describe cross-professional and international perspectives on living and health of different ages
• describe the different assessments, actions and evaluations that are relevant in community and home-based rehabilitation
• identify, present and discuss ethical dilemmas in relation to community and home-based rehabilitation 
• knowledge and understand World Health Organisation´s (WHOs) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG´s)

• Definitions of community- and home-based rehabilitation (CBR and HBR)
• Identification and description of how the health care system functions and how rehabilitation in home and society meets the needs of the population
• The need of adaptation of environment and the society
• National and global perspective on formal and informal care and rehabilitation
• Interdisciplinary and subject-specific perspectives on housing and health in different age groups
• Assessments, measures and evaluations within community and home rehabilitation
• Interventions that supports the possibility todaily activity, work and recreational activities
• Ethical dilemmas within rehabilitation in relation to housing and the society

The application of CBR or other rehabilitation in different countires is discssed. Also, the organizaion and acess to healtcare an rehabilitation in societies, at home and in institutions are addressed. This also includes ethical and socioeconomic perspectives related to the Sustainalbe Development Goals. (SDGs)

A groupwork with the aim to present a CBR- or HBR-project in a optional theme from a optional country and review according to theory and SDGs

In the individual written examination the student independently develops a CBR- och HBR-program and describes from a clientcase/familycase. The student shall identify, evaluate and connect to theory and reserach regarding different assessments, interventions and evaluations. The connection to ethical dilemmas is also presented in the paper and contains a interprofessional perspective.

The teaching is based on a problem-oriented and collaborative approach to learning in which the tasks provide opportunities for the student to take active responsibility för their learning. The used teachning methods are lectures, seminars, individual work, group work, literature reviews. The examiner decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the student has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the examiner.

The course has three modules

Modul 1: Interprofessional and international perspecitve on health and rehabilitation 1.5 ECTS
Posterpresention in groups

Modul 2: Presentation of a CBR or HBR project from litterature  2 ECTS
Presentation in group

Modul 3: A individual development of a CBR or HBR program 4 ECTS.
Through a individual written client case describe the different part in the rehabilitation process and participation in a seminar. 

Grading scale: Pass with distinction/Pass/Fail

Students who do not pass a regular examination are entitled to re-sit the examination on five occasions more. If the student has failed a total of six examinations/tests, no additional examination is given. Each occasion the student participates in the same test counts as an examination. Submission of a blank exam paper is regarded as an examination. In case a student is registered for an examination but does not attend, this is not regarded as an examination. Late submissions of examinations are not accepted. Students who have not submitted on time are referred to re-examination.

If special needs exists, or need of adaptation för students with disabilities the examiner can make the desicion to deviate from the syllabus rules regarding form of examination, number of examinations, the possibility to complementary or exceptions from mandatory moments etc. Content and goals for the course and anticipation of skills, knowledge and abilities can´t be changed, removed or lowered.

The course is in english.
The course will not be credited in a degree together with another course the student has completed and passed which completely or partly corresponds to the contents of this course. The following courses are partly overlapping: 1EE104 Professional Identity within Healthcare from a Global Perspective, 7.5 ECTS and 1XX011, Community- and homebased rehabilitation - Cultural Perspectives (swedish students), 7.5 ECTS.

Evaluation of the course will be carried out according to the guidelines established from the Board of Higher Education. The report of the course-evaluation and an analysis of the result will be published on the course-web after the evaluation is finished.