2024
Children's Health
Name: Children's Health
Code: ENF11417M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Health Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
The curricular unit helps in the recognition of disease situations that influence the well-being of children, influencing learning.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To improve knowledge in the area of child health in order to understand the problems that impact on children's learning;
Understand the influence of the educator in the relationship of support in the area of child/family health;
Encourage the use of the latest scientific literature to improve communication skills to encourage healthy lifestyles;
Exploring thematic areas such as citizenship in order to promote the child's development;
Learn about risk situations that have an impact on the child's quality of life.
Understand the influence of the educator in the relationship of support in the area of child/family health;
Encourage the use of the latest scientific literature to improve communication skills to encourage healthy lifestyles;
Exploring thematic areas such as citizenship in order to promote the child's development;
Learn about risk situations that have an impact on the child's quality of life.
Contents
Development stages and health screening, issues that educators can recognise and report.
Health promotion and prevention of risk scenarios.
The role of nutrition in child development.
Nutritional imbalances, obesity and malnutrition, comorbidities.
Sleep disorders, their impact on children's well-being.
Chronic illness, alarm signs, limitations on learning and school success.
Child abuse, typology, epidemiology, alert signs, support mechanisms.
Urgent health cases in children, first aid, guidelines for handling complex health problems.
Health promotion and prevention of risk scenarios.
The role of nutrition in child development.
Nutritional imbalances, obesity and malnutrition, comorbidities.
Sleep disorders, their impact on children's well-being.
Chronic illness, alarm signs, limitations on learning and school success.
Child abuse, typology, epidemiology, alert signs, support mechanisms.
Urgent health cases in children, first aid, guidelines for handling complex health problems.
Teaching Methods
Methodologies will be used to stimulate students' personal and professional development, based on reflection, critical thinking and on-going analysis, guided and organised in lectures and tutorials. Individual and group reflection opportunities will also be created.
Assessment
Implementation of the active and collaborative Design Thinking methodology. Group work (80%): Students will form groups to develop a joint project, applying Design Thinking to solve a Child Health challenge. Evaluation will be based on the application of the steps of Design Thinking, the quality of the solutions, and collaboration among group members.
Oral presentation (20%): Evaluates students' presence, involvement, and contribution in discussions.
The final evaluation of the course unit is the weighted result of partial evaluations, Project applying Design Thinking steps (80%) and Oral presentation (20%).
The exam evaluations performed by a written test.
Oral presentation (20%): Evaluates students' presence, involvement, and contribution in discussions.
The final evaluation of the course unit is the weighted result of partial evaluations, Project applying Design Thinking steps (80%) and Oral presentation (20%).
The exam evaluations performed by a written test.
Teaching Staff
- Maria Dulce Damas da Cruz [responsible]
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