Nataliia Letunovska, Liudmyla Saher, and Anna Rosokhata continue the educational initiative to teach students about the European Union's policy in the healthy regional development field. The course "Healthy Regional Development: Best European Practices" is conducted as part of the Jean Monnet module "Healthy Economy and Policy: European Values for Ukraine" (101047530- ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH).
The course is aimed at forming a system of knowledge about the concept of a healthy region, sustainable development, and EU trends in this area, studying the approaches of European countries to management in the health care system and familiarizing with the group of indicators of regional well-being adopted in the EU; formation of skills regarding the strategy of implementation and promotion of regional improvement projects. This course covers the following topics:
1. Basics of healthy regional development: introducing and implementing a healthy approach in regional development. EU legislation in the field of regional development.
2. Main goals and principles of sustainable regional development.
3. Formation of a healthy approach in regional development. Mechanisms of investing in the improvement of territories
4. The European link of the World Health Organization, its goals and objectives. Trends in the field of health improvement in the EU and Ukraine. Reducing inequality in the field of medical and social welfare of the population
5. Subjects of entrepreneurial activity: social corporate responsibility and social enterprises. Responsible production. Formation of the market for healthy products: the experience of the EU countries. The sphere of services in the system of healthy regional development
