Literacy and Self-Care

Code: ENF14483L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The Curricular Unit allows knowing the importance of health literacy for the promotion of self-care.

Sustainable Development Goals

Erradicar a pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Learning Goals

• Recognize the importance of health literacy for the promotion of self-care.
• Promotes health training and self-care of citizens.
• Recognize the importance of health communication and health literacy in promoting citizenship and in the fight against social inequalities.
• Design innovative tools appropriate for the dissemination of health communication.
• Analyze models and conceptual structures of communication and marketing in health.
• Collaborate in the definition and implementation of strategies that promote the demand and appropriation of health information by the population.

1. Health literacy and self-care.
2. Health communication and marketing.
3. The demand, access, and appropriation of health information.
4. The informed health decisions and the promotion of self-care.
5. The exercise of citizenship in health.

Teaching Methods

The exhibition through the master introduces the themes, in order to promote the first contact with the programmatic contents. The themes will be presented using techniques that promote the communication and exploitation of the contents, aiming to develop communication skills, bibliographic research in databases and critical analysis of scientific evidence, so relevant in the training of students. Guidance sessions and student support will be held in accordance with the recommendations of the Bologna Process. Continuous evaluation involves the accomplishment of two thematic, group and individual studies on a health literacy experiences, triggered in a given context. The final grade results from the arithmetic mean of the two moments of formal evaluation. The student who doesnt perform one of the scheduled continuous evaluation moments automatically opts for the examination regime, applying the provisions of the UÉ regulation.