2024
Health, Illness and Medicine
Name: Health, Illness and Medicine
Code: CMS14301L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Health Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
Study of: Social aspects of health, disease, medicine and society; Social determinants of health and illness; Social factors and medical practice; of the Social Process of Health, Disease and Medicine.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Aims:
1. To explain and illustrate how personal experiences, such as health and illness, are influenced by social factors;
2. To enable medical and or biomedical sciences students with main interdisciplinary and sociological knowledge to reflective analysis about healthcare and medical practice in western contemporaries societies.
By the end of teaching and learning sessions, the students have acquired the following skills:
- Understand the social basis of health, illness and medicine and how the contexts of clinical care are essential components of good medical practice;
- Understand and analyse the relationship between social determinants of health, peoples experiences of health, illness and medicine;
- Identify, list and summarize, in interdisciplinary health sciences and sociological perspective, the common issues related with health policies, health inequalities, illness experience, medical professions and doctor-patient relationships.
1. To explain and illustrate how personal experiences, such as health and illness, are influenced by social factors;
2. To enable medical and or biomedical sciences students with main interdisciplinary and sociological knowledge to reflective analysis about healthcare and medical practice in western contemporaries societies.
By the end of teaching and learning sessions, the students have acquired the following skills:
- Understand the social basis of health, illness and medicine and how the contexts of clinical care are essential components of good medical practice;
- Understand and analyse the relationship between social determinants of health, peoples experiences of health, illness and medicine;
- Identify, list and summarize, in interdisciplinary health sciences and sociological perspective, the common issues related with health policies, health inequalities, illness experience, medical professions and doctor-patient relationships.
Contents
Module 1. Social aspects of health, illness, medicine and society
1.1. Health and illness/disease in sociological context and health sciences
1.2. Sociology as applied to medicine and biomedical sciences
Module 2. Social determinants of health and illness
2.1. Inequality, social and health
2.2. Aging, health and society
Module 3. Social factors in medical practice
3.1. Doctor-patient relationship
3.2. Hospitals and patient care
3.3. Living with chronic illness
3.4. Dying, death and bereavement
Module 4. The social process of health, illness and medicine
4.1. Limits and boundaries of medical knowledge
4.2. Health professions
4.3. Community care and informal caring
4.4. Public health and health promotion
1.1. Health and illness/disease in sociological context and health sciences
1.2. Sociology as applied to medicine and biomedical sciences
Module 2. Social determinants of health and illness
2.1. Inequality, social and health
2.2. Aging, health and society
Module 3. Social factors in medical practice
3.1. Doctor-patient relationship
3.2. Hospitals and patient care
3.3. Living with chronic illness
3.4. Dying, death and bereavement
Module 4. The social process of health, illness and medicine
4.1. Limits and boundaries of medical knowledge
4.2. Health professions
4.3. Community care and informal caring
4.4. Public health and health promotion
Teaching Methods
Course to be taught by theoretical sessions, classroom-based, and can eventually be applied sessions via platform moodle-uevora.
Tutorial sessions and self-study in accordance with Bologna Process recommendations.
For contact hours with the teacher and the teaching and learning process will be organized in classes essentially theoreticals. In addition to the content teaching exhibition by the teacher, classes also count with students participation, individually or in small groups, and based on previously distributed resources or gathered through self-study.
a) Continuous Evaluation:
- Working paper (1): 100%
b) Evaluation by final exam:
- Written test (a comprehensive final exam): 100
Tutorial sessions and self-study in accordance with Bologna Process recommendations.
For contact hours with the teacher and the teaching and learning process will be organized in classes essentially theoreticals. In addition to the content teaching exhibition by the teacher, classes also count with students participation, individually or in small groups, and based on previously distributed resources or gathered through self-study.
a) Continuous Evaluation:
- Working paper (1): 100%
b) Evaluation by final exam:
- Written test (a comprehensive final exam): 100
