Preventive Medicine

Code:

214

Acronym:

214

Instance: 2005/2006 - A

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	40	Plano oficial a partir de 2000	2	4	8,5	-

Objectives

To learn and develop a modern concept of health and of its effectors of biological, psychological, social and ecological nature; To acquire and develop an attitude of health promotion; To acquire and develop an attitude promoting health; Learn the differences of between Healing and Preventive Medicine; To know the organization of the health system as well as the organization of medical and paramedical professions in Portugal, recognizing their action in promoting health; To acquire the capacity to identify and to analyze the main problems of health in Portugal in the context of the health promotion; To understand the attitudes of health protection, of education to health and of disease prevention and their complications and the recovery of the disabled; To know in what way certain lifestyles can constitute risk factors and can compete as causal factors for some diseases; To acquire the capacity to perform education for health promotion.

Program

Curricular plan (subjects to discuss): Health and Promotion; Education and Protection of Health; Disease prevention; Lifestyle influence on health: diet, alcoholism and other drug abuse, physical exercise, stress and environmental pollution; Prevention of the following: cardiovascular, breathing, infectious, sexually transmissible, cancerous and traveler diseases; Prevention of diseases in the family and in the elderly; Prevention of accidents.

Main Bibliography

Preventive Medicine in General Practice - Gray M, Fowler G. Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986; Prevention in Clinical Practice - Becker D, Gardner L. Ed. Plenum Medical Book Company, 1988; Health Promotion, Models and Values - Downie RS, Fyfe C, Tannahill. Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990; Public Health and Preventive Medicine - Last J, Wallace RB. 1992; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice - Woolf ST, Jonas S, Lawrence RS. Ed Williams and Wilkins, 1996; Health Promotion in Clinical Practice - Bright JS. Ed. Bailliere Tindall, 1997; Public Health and Human Ecology - Last J. 1998; The Strategy of Preventive Medicine - Rose G. 7th Edition, Oxford: Oxford Medical Publications, 2000; A Saúde dos Portugueses. Direcção Geral de Saúde. Lisboa. Ministério da Saúde.

Complementary Bibliography

The complementary bibliograghy is given to the students at the weekly lecture of 1 hour.

Teaching methods and learning activities

A weekly Lecture of 1 hour, of the Regent's responsibility, integrating, whenever possible, the experience of the S. João Health Center.
A weekly Practical Session of 2 hours, of the responsibility of the Assistants, that will be interactive, because the students will make a formal presentation of the subject of the previous week´s lecture, followed by debate and discussion with the other students, under the Assistant's supervision. Until the Christmas Holidays each class has to complete a Program of Health Education about a Life Style for a certain population of the S. João Health Center, monitoring its different phases of execution: diagnosis of the situation, intervention and assessment. The final report of this Program should be presented in May at the “Meeting of the Precocious Contact”. The students that opted for the Program of Domiciliary Support to those who suffer from CVA should present a report of the activities developed.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

The frequency attainning is achieved by the students who were present in more that 2/3 of the practical sessions.

Observations

Head of the Department – Prof. Doutora Maria Luciana Couto Carvalho
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Paulo Pessanha
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Paulo Santos
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Álvaro F. Silva
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Carlos Martins
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. Carlos Portinha
Part-time Invited Teaching Assistant - Dr. José Oliveira