Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Society and Health: International Cooperation in Health
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
Teaching staff
Students may contact teachers by appointment via e-mail or after the lectures.
Introduction
In case that the health authorities decree a new period of confinement in the face of the evolution of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate the possible effects on training methodologies and activities, as well as on evaluation systems.
Society and Health is a course aimed at 4th year students. Although it belongs to the Community specialization, it may be extended to students of Clinical specialization. In the International specialization the subject International Cooperation in Health has 3 ECTS in common with this subject. This subject is an introduction to development cooperation projects from a nursing perspective. How can a nurse participate in all stages? The Society and Health course will also develop some issues from a not only international but regional and local perspective.
Pre-course requirements
Not required
The Department of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has agreed that it is compulsory for all students taking a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, when participating in online classes, to turn on their camera and remain visible to lecturers and professors at all times.If there are students in self-isolation due to the COVID-19 health and safety measures, who cannot physically attend class at the University like their peers, teaching staff will carry out online teaching during this isolation period only so that the student(s) in question can attend their classes online. The rest of the students will have to attend their classes in person in the classroom.
Objectives
- Reflect on the impact that a help relationship can have on people who have experienced situations of disadvantage.
- Provide tools to plan and prepare a cooperation for development project in all its phases.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 10. B - Protecting the health and welfare of individuals or groups by ensuring their safety.
- 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
- 12. B - Know and observe the ethical code of conduct of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
- 13. G - Know the principles of health-care funding and use resources appropriately.
- 14. G - Establish mechanisms for evaluation, taking into account scientific, technical and quality standards.
- 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
- 1. G - Ability to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they treat, with full technical and scientific autonomy, according to current and available scientific knowledge and to the quality standards and safety requirements set forth in the applicable legal standards and code of ethics.
- 21. B - Oral and written communication.
- 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
- 2. E - Plan and provide nursing care for individuals or groups, taking health outcomes into account and their impact, through guidelines for clinical practice and care, which describe the four processes by which a health problem is diagnosed or treated.
- 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
- 6. E - Base nursing care on scientific evidence and available resources.
- 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
- 9. E - Promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, as well as the maintenance of therapeutic and preventive behaviors.
Learning outcomes of the subject
At the end of course "Society and Health", the student will be able to:
- Identify environmental and social factors that influence health.
- Appreciate the importance of food and its risks.
- Understand the importance of the relationship between health, urban planning, housing and environment.
- Understand the city as a more social and ecological human place.
- Elaborate care plans, incorporating elements of the cultural context of the user within Code of Ethics for Nurses
- Propose strategies to empower people and communities.
- Recognize health promotion and health education as fundamental tools in order to encourage individuals and communities to maintain and especially to improve their state of health.
- Understanding the principles that determine behaviours related to health, maintenance, retention and modification.
- Plan, design, implement and evaluate health programmes aimed at the community.
- Identify action strategies for health promotion.
- Identify the different health agents within the community.
- Recognize the different cultures living in our society.
Syllabus
- How to develop an International Cooperation Project: stages of the project design. Projects examples in Africa; Latin America; India; etc.
- Get to know the field: how to make health diagnosis. Evaluation of the health status of the Community. Working with leaders, community agents.
- Help relationship help in important disadvantaged situations.
- Seminars and workshops about: training health workers; sessions for parents; workshops for children in schools; health literacy; home visits; health care; prevention workshops.
- Request for institutional aid for development cooperation projects.
- Dissemination of information: newspapers, radio, television and the Internet; participation in conferences, articles in scientific journals, etc. Photography Seminar: Photographs for the project.
- Research: research projects on Health Cooperation programmes and International Health.
- International Health.
- Six hours of Clinical Simulation will be taught within this subject, as a complement to the Simulation Laboratory practices that could not be carried out last year due to the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
- Classes will be done in the presencial modality. In case there are students who cannot attend for reasons derived from COVID19, the teacher will do the classes in BLENDED format, where the whole group will be in the classroom and at the same time the Collaborate will be used for those who cannot attend.
- The methodology will be varied, generally having one session focus on the professor exposition and others focused on exercises in the classroom. Among other activities there will be workshops, seminars (photography, video, etc.), discussions, role-playing, etc. In addition, participants will be invited in cooperation projects of an international scope
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
There will be continuous assessment will that will take into consideration the following:
- Participation (attendance, active participation, etc.) and exercises in class 20%.
- Workshops and seminars on prevention and health promotion (in Teams)
- A 20 minute workshop, and written assignment will be worth 60% and a 5 min one will be worth 10%.
- Exercise for the Unit 3 (resilience and help relationship in disadvantaged situations) 15%. It will offer the possibility of carrying out this work linked to the 20-minute workshop, or to analyze other situations.
- Peer evaluation 5%
In the first resit the results of the ongoing evaluation will be taken into account. The mark obtained for participation and class exercises is not taken into account in first resit assessment. All the exercises that have been failed must be retaken.
For the second and third resit the same criteria applies as for the first and second.
Before enrolling again in the subject please check compatibility with other subjects.
Honors will not be awarded in the first resit.
Bibliography and resources
Evaluation period
- E1 16/11/2021 10:00h
- R1 03/12/2021 12:00h
- E2 21/06/2022 10:00h
- R2 01/07/2022 10:00h