Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Society and Health: International Cooperation in Health
Other languages of instruction: Catalan,
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
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.
- 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
- 22. G - Use and management of information and research
- 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
- 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
- 28. E - Leadership in nursing care and in nursing teams to improve quality care for people, participation in health policy and professional development.
- 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
- 5. G - Design systems of care programed for people or groups, assessing their impact and making necessary modifications.
- 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
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For students enrolled in English for Nursing 1 (09826), International Cooperation and Health (09824) and Transcultural Nursing (09823) there will be a common project to develop English communication competencies and integrate and apply the content of the three subjects. This activity consists of a 30-minute oral presentation and written work which will be tutored and evaluated through the three subjects. International Cooperation and Health and Transcultural Nursing will focus on the content, and English for Nursing will focus on the communication skills.
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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.
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. Group projects and oral presentation 50% (a 20 minute workshop will be worth 35% and a 5 min one will be worth 15%).
- Exercise on a press release (it will be carried out in groups, it will be presented in the classroom and it will be sent through the virtual platform moodle) 10%. Students (in groups of 3-4) given a newspaper article about one global health problem. Prepare a presentation in which they: Identify the global health problem and describe it to other students. Explain how nurses could have a positive impact in solving the problem
- 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.