Practice Health Education

Code:

E613

Acronym:

PES

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	25	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

This course goals aims to:

- acquire and develop knowledge and skills related to methodologies of health education;

- explore health education instruments and strategies;

- provide conditions to reflect critically on health promotion potentials and risks in formal, non-formal and informal education contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

In terms of learning outcomes, it is expected that this course will allow:

- to think and operate on health education strategies;

- to adapt health promotion messages and initiatives to different audiences/groups and in different contexts;

- to work in multidisciplinary teams different topics of health education;

- to critically analyze projects and / or education initiatives for health, taking into account its effects from the social, education, cultural, economic, etc. points of view.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Syllabus:

The health education intervention as a co constructed field;

Agents and contexts of health education;

The design of health education strategies as forms of community participation.

Mandatory literature

Carapinheiro Graça; Saberes e poderes no hospital. ISBN: 972-36-0306-3
SONTAG, Susan; A Doença como Metáfora. A Sida e as suas Metáforas, Quetzal, 2009
CARAPINHEIRO, Graça (Org.); Sociologia da Saúde. Estudos e Perspectivas, 2006
SWAIN, John; FRENCH, Sally; BARNES, Colin & THOMAS, Carol (Eds.) ; Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments , Sage Publications, 2004
Rodrigues, David (Org.); Educação e Diferença. Valores e Práticas para uma Educação Inclusiva, Porto Editora, 2001
PAIS, Sofia Castanheira; Vivência e qualidade de vida escolar, empoderamento e participação: O caso das crianças e jovens com doença crónica e suas famílias, 2012
ABREU, José Luís Pio ; Comunicação e Medicina, Virtualidade, 1998
ALVES, Fátima (Coord.); Saúde, Medicina e Sociedade, Factor, 2013
LEANDRO, Maria Engracia; NOSSA, Paulo Nuno & RODRIGUES, Vitor (Orgs.); Saúde e Sociedade. Os Contributos (In)visíveis da Família, Psicosoma, 2009
SONTAG, Susan; A Doença como Metáfora. A Sida e as suas Metáforas, Quetzal, 2009
COSTA, Rui Manuel Pinto ; O Poder médico no Estado Novo (1945-1974). Afirmação, legitimação e ordenamento profissional, Editorial da Universidade do Porto, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact hours: Exhibition, discussion, group dynamics and mentoring work.

 

Autonomous work: literature search, writing and ground work.

 

The teaching methods include three main dimensions: the literature revision on health education projects / initiatives; the presentation and the debate on its specificities; and critical analysis of its strengths and weaknesses.

 

Throughout the semester students are invited to collect health education projects / initiatives registering their critical notes, based on the reading and analysis thereof, in a diary. At the end of the semester it is expected that students select a health education project / initiative to present the group discussing its strengths and weaknesses. This health education project / initiative should also be explored from a theoretical point of view in written record in the form of final work.

 

The evaluation components include: quality of presence/attendance component (30%), presentation of health education project / initiatives (30%) and diary and final report / reflection (40%).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Prova oral	30,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

30% + 30% + 40% = 100%