2023

Health- diseases Processes

Name: Health- diseases Processes
Code: CMS13372L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Objectives:
- Understand the complexity of health-disease processes;
- To know the adaptive processes of the organism to the aggression - individual susceptibility to the disease;
- Analyze the importance of Microbiology in disease process.
SKILLS :
- Analyze factors of health-disease process;
- Explain reactions to endogenous and exogenous factors of disease processes;
- Explain the influence of pathogenic microorganisms in disease process

Contents

I. Concepts (Health and Disease)
II. Epidemiology and Health
III. Overview of General Pathology
a. Cellular responses to stress and toxic insults; Adaptation, Injury and Death
b. Inflammation and Repair
c. Hemodynamic Disordres, Thromboembolic Disease and Shock
d. Genetic Disorders
e. Diseases of the Immune System
f. Neoplasia
IV. Infectious Diseases.

Teaching Methods

The contents are exposed in theoretical classes, in which student participation is encouraged. Three seminars will be organized to present and discuss innovative health topics.
To consider continuous evaluation, the student must take an individual written test (80%) and present a group work (20%) in the 3rd edition of the short film festival SOS Saúde. Students whose final classification is equal to or higher than 10 are approved.