Community Health I

Code:

MT142

Acronym:

S_CO_I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Population Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MED	166	Plano oficial a partir de 2003	1	3		-

Objectives

Provide to the ICBAS students the abilities and behaviours in order to analyse socio-sanitarian situations of the community in, subsequently, generating a global and efficient intervention in community health (evaluated by health indicators).

Program

A. Theory
1,2- Public Health and health community.
3,4- Socio-sanitarian conditions
5,6,7,8- Health in Portugal
9,10- Old and new epidemics in Portugal; Behaviour and citizenship; Challenges in a health promotion strategy
11,12,13,14 – Demography and Health; Ecology and health
15,16,17,18,19,20- Health and Primary Health Care
21 to 34- Nutrition and community health

2. Practice
1.Socio-sanitarian conditions
2.Health in Portugal
3.Challenges for health in Portugal
4.Old and new epidemics in Portugal
5.Behaviour and citizenship
6.Aging and socio-sanitarian implications
7.Nutrition and health
8.Promotion and education for health

Main Bibliography

- Detels R, Holland WW, McEwen J. and Omenn G.S.. Oxford Textbook of Public Health. Oxford University Press, New York. Third Edition, 1997.
- Maxcy-Rosenau-Last. Public Health & Preventive Medicine. Appleton & Lange. Stamford, Connecticut, 1998. (Fourteenth edition).

Complementary Bibliography

For each session, specific bibliography will be suggested

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures (Theory) and practices

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Legal procedures

Calculation formula of final grade

Final evaluation by written tests (eventually oral discussion). Are needed other legal procedures.

Classification improvement

See above

Observations

The whole regulation of the discipline is in the official guide, official after submission to the student’s discussion in the beginning of the year.