Health and Society

Code: ENF14450L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Sociology

Teaching languages: Portuguese, English

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This UC contributes, through its programmatic contents, to the SDGs with the following themes: individual and social costs of health/disease; violence/gender/health; multiculturalism and health.

Sustainable Development Goals

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.

Learning Goals

- Develop skills in the analytical operationalisation of the saudification and medicalisation of society
- Understand the relationship between health communication and health management
- Acquire bases of theoretical reflection on active ageing, interpersonal violence and gender issues in health
- Understand the importance of transversal knowledge for the provision of nursing care

• Healthization and medicalization of society
• Health communication and individual health management
• Active and healthy aging
• Health and interpersonal violence
• Gender and health
• Multiculturality, health and disease

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies are centered on the master and debate sessions moderated by the teacher and rely on the active participation of students. Resources previously distributed or to be researched in self-study will contribute to streamlining the sessions and to the acquisition of skills by the students. Methodologies will be used to stimulate the personal development and self-learning of students, based on a work of reflection, critical questioning, and continuous analysis, properly guided and framed in the teaching sessions and tutorial guidance. Spaces for individual and group reflection will also be created, using guided reading, classroom debates and bibliographical research. Continuous assessment includes 5 moments (each corresponding to 20% of the final grade): 2 moments of individual assessment and 3 of group work. Failure to complete one of these continuous assessment moments implies automatic passage to the final exam.