2024
Human Behavior and Health
Name: Human Behavior and Health
Code: SOC13051M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Sociology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. Understanding of psychological processes for understanding, predicting and changing health behaviours.
2. Understanding the effect of belonging and intervention at the group level
3. Understanding the psychological processes involved in the perception and evaluation of risks
4. Develop practical knowledge and skills in risk communication and intervention in health promotion
5. Understanding the cultural determinants of health and disease, in human populations and in interaction with non-human populations.
6. Understanding and discussing the mutually constitutive relationship between humans and non-humans.
7. Development of methodological competences of cartography of social reality using combined methodologies (ethnography, psychology, sociology).
2. Understanding the effect of belonging and intervention at the group level
3. Understanding the psychological processes involved in the perception and evaluation of risks
4. Develop practical knowledge and skills in risk communication and intervention in health promotion
5. Understanding the cultural determinants of health and disease, in human populations and in interaction with non-human populations.
6. Understanding and discussing the mutually constitutive relationship between humans and non-humans.
7. Development of methodological competences of cartography of social reality using combined methodologies (ethnography, psychology, sociology).
Contents
1. Health Attitudes and Behaviors
2. Health and group processes
3. Perceived risk to health
4. Communication of risk and intervention in health promotion
5. Cultural and environmental dimensions of health and disease:
6. Study of the social and cultural dimensions that explain the contemporary causes of health and disease, and the development of strategies to overcome them.
7. Introductory characterization of cultural / social anthropology and health methodologies.
2. Health and group processes
3. Perceived risk to health
4. Communication of risk and intervention in health promotion
5. Cultural and environmental dimensions of health and disease:
6. Study of the social and cultural dimensions that explain the contemporary causes of health and disease, and the development of strategies to overcome them.
7. Introductory characterization of cultural / social anthropology and health methodologies.
Teaching Methods
Oral presentation supported by visual methodologies, documentary viewing, critical reading of texts, participation in fieldwork and study visits. Active methodology.
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