Health Planning

Code: ENF14436M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/162 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This curricular unit intends to make known the stages of health planning, allowing the student to develop action plans, programs and projects.

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

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

17. Parcerias para a implementação dos objetivos - Fortalecer os meios de implementação e revitalizar a parceria global para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Learning Goals

Aims:
• Understand the planning stages, health information sources and analysis strategies;
• Recognize health planning methodology diagnoses and intervention based on specialist nurses in community and public health;
Skills:
• Identify health needs and tools for setting priorities;
• Organize data from various sources to analyze the health needs unmet and their implications in health services and nursing care;
• Develop action plans, programs and projects;
• Apply monitoring tools and evaluation of programs and projects;
• Reveals self-learning skills and uses the available evidence in the design of intervention projects.

1. Planning Health: concepts and steps;
2. Health Information and planning: databases and health information systems; Key strategies for data analysis;
3. Health situation diagnosis: problems and health population needs;
4. Health priorities;
5. Planning the intervention: action plans, programs and health projects;
6. Health monitoring and evaluation;
7. Planning for contingency situation. Health planning for efficient resource use: contributions to health facilities contractualizacion and to promote
quality care.
8. Health marketing

Teaching Methods

In delivering the course content, pedagogical strategies will be selected to promote the acquisition and deepening of knowledge by students, grounded in research, reflection, and analytical work, supported and structured across theoretical, theoretical-practical, and tutorial sessions.
Group analysis of texts and data sources will be conducted, as well as practical exercises during theoretical-practical classes.
The pedagogical methodology used in this Course Unit also includes the use of advanced technological resources, namely digital environments and technological platforms applied to training and simulation.

Assessment

The assessment of this course unit consists of a formal evaluation component that involves the group design of a community intervention project in the field of health prevention, protection, and promotion, followed by its presentation and discussion.

Written Group Project (50%):
Development, in group, of a community intervention project, accompanied by a written report. This component represents 50% of the final grade.

Individual Presentation and Discussion (50%):
Oral presentation of the project, followed by an individual discussion. This component represents 50% of the final grade.

The final grade results from the weighted average of the two assessment components.
Examinations are carried out in accordance with the Academic Regulations in force.