Health Education

Code: PED12658D

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

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

1. Strengthen healthy attitudes and lifestyles, reinforcing positive health choices and promoting changes in unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles;
2. To defend, fundamentally, environmental changes that facilitate healthy living conditions and healthy behavior, in order to achieve sustainable development;
3. Accomplish a systematic review of recent research in health education;
4. Empowering to the programs and projects conceptualization and evaluation in health education, in the individual, family, peer group, school, community;
5. Develop capacity to carry out community interventions in the area of disease prevention and health promotion;
6. To qualify for the accomplishment or participation in investigative actions, in the area of health education;
7. Communicate knowledge, reasoning, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialist and non-specialist public in a clear and unambiguous manner;
8. Contribute to make health a heritage of the community.

1. Education and health.
2. Factors that determine the level of health-disease in the world today.
3. Paradigms of health promotion.
4. Environment and health.
5. Health promotion and health education.
6. Emerging fields in health education: What the recent research says.
7. Health in Post-Transactional Societies in the 21st century: A demographic perspective.
8. Healthy life and disability evolution.
9. The ABC model: a radical approach to health education.
10. The empowerment model in health education.
11. Theories and models in health education.
12. Risk perception and communication of prevention.
13. Group work and the development of preventive behaviors.
14. Risk and prevention habits - major health problems of the 21st century.
15. Methodology of intervention in health education

16. Methodology and research in health education.

Teaching Methods

The Paideia model follows in a few moments. In theoretical classes, a model based on exposure was favored, emphasizing information economy. Conceptual maps are used. At times, critical education is adopted, involving higher-order thinking skills. In the practical classes cooperative learning is used. The objectives and context are provided, information is presented, learning teams are organized, work and study are accompanied, school work is evaluated and recognized. Individual works co-exist, either in the classroom or as an autonomous work, of deepening of the subjects and exploration of coalescent fields. The evaluation includes the elaboration of an article of systematic review of the literature, submitted to an A1 or A2 journal or with impact factor> 1, of a theme reconciled with the particular areas of interest of each student. Final classification: article (60%), oral presentation of the article (20%) and participation in (10%).