Education and Community Health

Code:

DE233

Acronym:

ESC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Social Studies/Public Policies / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S (since 21-09-2020 to 19-12-2020)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	14	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The objectives of this course are:

Acquire knowledge in the field of community health;

Explore community health strategies and their educational, social, political implications, etc.;

Promote conditions to think criticially about educational dimension regarding both the potential and risks inherent to rights, participation and community intervention of groups with different health situations.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course, students will have acquired knowledge and developed skills that will allow them to:

Investigate and problematize conditions that promote rights, well-being and health in communities;

Think and implement health promotion strategies in communities and with communities;

Work in multidisciplinary teams on different dimensions of community health;

Critically analyze community health projects and / or initiatives, discussing their educational, social, political implications, etc.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

Program

1. Education, health and community participation

1.1 Des/continuities in the relationship between education and health

1.2 The social construction of health and disease

2. Community Health and its sphere of intervention co-constructed

2.1 Contexts and health promotion agents

2.2 Health literacy and community intervention

3. From sensitivity to intervention - thinking about social change

3.1 Community empowerment

3.2 Biomedical model and socio-political model

3.3 Therapeutic model and socio-anthropological model

4. Rights, participation and health

4.1 Contributions to think about education (from deafness, chronic illness, aging, ...)

Mandatory literature

Alain Battegay; Cuidar, tomar parte, viver com questões e desafios da cidadania profana na relação saúde/socieda. ISBN: 9789898148971
James McKenzie; An introduction to community health. ISBN: 978-0763790110
Isabel Menezes; Intervenção comunitária. ISBN: 978-972-8082-90-1
CAMPBELL, Catherine & MURRAY, Michael ; Community Health Psychology: Promoting Analysis and Action for Social Change, Journal of Health Psychology, 9(2) 187–195, 2004
FINKELSTEIN, Vic ; Representing disability, In J. Swain; S. French; C. Barnes & C. Thomas (Eds.), Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments 2nd edition (pp. 13-20). London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications., 2004
MERZEL, Cheryl & D’AFFLITII, Joanna ; Reconsidering Community-Based Health Promotion: Promise, Performance, and Potential, American Journal of Public Health, 93(4): 557–574., 2003
PAIS, Sofia C.; RODRIGUES, Mariana & MENEZES, Isabel ; Community as locus for health formal and non-formal education: the significance of ecological and collaborative research for promoting health literacy, Frontiers in Public Health Education and Promotion, 2: 1-9., 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact hours: Exhibition, debate, group work.



Autonomous work: Group work. Reading and analysis of texts.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	35,00
Trabalho escrito	55,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	35,00
Frequência das aulas	10,00
Trabalho escrito	55,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

The assessment model adopted assumes compliance with attendance in accordance with the law for the remaining courses of the faculty and without prejudice to the provisions of point 4 of article 9 of the assessment regulation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is based on:


- Face-to-face participation 


- Presentation and discussion of a scientific article


- Written work

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who, by law, are exempted from UC contact hours will be required to take a special face-to-face exam designed to assess the UC's domain of skills and program contents.

Classification improvement

Only written work can be improved.

Observations

Considering the operational recommendations for maintaining teaching and non-teaching activities in person, but in the impossibility of guaranteeing the presence of all the teaching activities of the 1st semester of 2020/2021 in the current pandemic context, due to the lack of physical facilities capable of accommodating with the number of students in this cycle of studies is secure, the component [T] of this UC will partially take place at a distance, with synchronous moments, using telematic support materials.