Saúde, Bem-estar e Arquitetura

Code:

OPT257

Acronym:

SBA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	2	Plano Oficial 2021	2	-	2	19	54
			5

Teaching language

Portuguese and english
Obs.: Português e, se necessário, em inglês.

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of this curricular unit, students must:

Working method

Presencial

Program

• Health and its environmental and social determinants;


• Healthy homes and public spaces;


• Efficiency of resources and their durability, waste management, and adequacy of local materials for construction;


• The role of green public spaces in promoting physical activity and improving air quality, and strategies to promote thermal comfort with low energy consumption in urban and rural environments;


• Designing and advocating for healthy living conditions.

THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL CLASSES (TP) + FIELD ACTIVITIES (AC) + PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF ASSIGNMENTS (AT):

TP - March 05 (17h30-19h30) Location: FMUP - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva - Presentation - Teresa Leão - Health: main health issues, health needs, health inequities

TP - March 12 (17h30-19h30) Location: FMUP - Teresa Leão - Health: health determinants: from the scale of the individual to health policies - Ana Neiva - Designing and defending good living conditions - bioclimatic architecture - preparation of fieldwork

AC - March 15 (09h00-13h00) - Ilhas - SAAL neighborhoods - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva

TP - March 19 (17h30-19h30) Location: FAUP - Gisela Lameira - Ageing in Place; accessibility and mobility - Ana Neiva - Designing and defending good living conditions; resource efficiency, waste management and local building materials - fieldwork preparation

AC - March 22 (09h00-13h00) - Collective housing buildings (4 hours) - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva

TP - March 26 (17h30-19h30) Location: FAUP - Ana Isabel Ribeiro - Green spaces, urbanism and health - Carla Gonçalves - Designing green and accessible public spaces

AC - March 29 (09h00-13h00) - Public spaces - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva

TP - April 09 (18h00-19h00) Location: FAUP - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva - Accompanying group work

TP - April 30 (17h30-19h30) Location: FAUP - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva - Accompanying group work

AT - May 17 (9h00-12h00) Location: FAUP - Teresa Leão and Ana Neiva - Discussion and evaluation of group work

Mandatory literature

WHO; Housing and health guidelines
Barton H, Grant M, Guise R; Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability
Battisto D, Wilhelm JJ; Architecture and Health: Guiding Principles for Practice
Bueno M; El gran libro de la casa sana
Dannenberg A, Frumkin H, Jackson R; Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well- being, and Sustainability
Frank LD, Engelke PO, Schmid TL; Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity
Neighborhoods and Health; Duncan DT, Kawachi I

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course is based on pedagogical practices that favor dialogue, encouraging students to listen to the inhabitants and share experiences in the learning process, rather than one-way transmission. The course combines a theoretical component, an introduction to scientific evidence, with field visits and group work. The course uses project-based learning strategies, in which students, in interdisciplinary groups, are challenged to carry out a diagnosis of health and determinants in different neighborhoods and to design proposals for solutions. The theoretical sessions, taught by professors and researchers from Public Health, and Architecture, provide knowledge to frame these field visits. All the sessions, visits and group work are accompanied by the teachers responsible for the course, from both areas.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho de campo	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Elaboração de projeto	21,00
Estudo autónomo	7,00
Frequência das aulas	8,00
Trabalho de campo	8,00
Trabalho escrito	7,00
Total:	54,00

Eligibility for exams

Students must pass both final papers and attend 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grade = 0.6*group work + 0.4*individual work

Classification improvement

It will be possible to appeal the written work by resubmitting a paper with a theme to be defined with the teaching team. Appeal on the group work can occur through oral discussion of the project, integrating the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired.

Observations