Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Health-Promoting Activities

• code 09816
• course 4
• term Semester 1
• type op
• credits 4

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

MsU María VILARRUBIAS - mvilarrubias@uic.es

Other instructors

Dra. María de los Ángeles CEREZUELA - cerezuela-alumni@uic.es
MsU José Pablo AGUDO - jpagudo@uic.es

Academic year: 2012-1013 1st Semester
Language: Castilian, Catalan and English
schedule
12.00-14.00 Tuesday, 12.00-14.00 Wednesday and Thursday from 10.00 to 12.00
Professorat
responsible
Maria Vilarrubias - mvilarrubias@csc.uic.es
Professors Altres
Cerezuela Marian Tower - cerezuela@csc.uic.es
Jose Agudo Ugena - jpagudo@csc.uic.es
Hours
To be arranged with the teacher. (Advance sending an email.)

Date of renovation of the Teaching Guide: May 2012

This course is newly created for students in 4th grade. Improving the health of people is one of the fundamental goals of nursing. Current scientific evidence shows that in maintaining the health of the people there are different factors that influence and that a very important part of the state of health due to lifestyle, behavior and habits. The evidence also reminds us that there are other factors outside the individual such as genetics, environment and socioeconomic conditions. These determinants are key elements to carry out health promotion and disease prevention effective. Much of the maintenance of health depends on the promotion that bestow health professionals. Public health strategies should aim to preserve and improve health, anticipating the problems of the individual and the community. Actions to improve health must always respect the dignity of people. The latest health report 2008 WHO identifies the renewal of primary health care (PHC) as the most needed health policy for the coming years. The economic and political crisis poses to the state and institutional mechanisms for the challenge of ensuring access to health services to all citizens, provision and financing, including advocacy.

• We recommend, review prior to the start of the subject knowledge taught in courses with content of Community and Public Health.

• This course is useful for the Practicum in 4th grade.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

1-Recognize the different programs of health promotion and prevention.
2 - Identify the phases of design, planning, implementation and evaluation of programs of health promotion.
3 - Interpret and critically analyze various programs of health promotion and prevention strategies.
4 - Designing a Plan for Health Promotion and being able to play in a community.

• 10. B - Protecting the health and welfare of individuals or groups by ensuring their safety.
• 15. B - Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary professionals and other staff of health care are organized.
• 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.
• 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.

1) Introduction and conceptual aspects of prevention, promotion and protection of health. Activities to promote health in the community. The radio, school, associations, institutes, centers, etc..
2). Skills required for the evaluation of programs to promote health and prevent disease.
3) Design and planning of prevention programs and interventions and health promotion. Planning, implementation, monitoring of programs. Assessment of needs and demands of the community.
4) Programme of preventive and health promotion (PAPPS).
5) Community programs for the prevention of alcohol, snuff and toxic substances.
6) Programs Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity.
7) Promotion of Hygiene Habits
8) Promoting healthy leisure.
9) Promotion accidents and injuries.
10) sex education programs. Programs to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
11) Programs of maternal education. The family as the generator of healthy habits of society. Health Tips: Fitness and leisure
12) Environmental Health Programs.
13) i escola health program. Food in schools and healthy eating. Program oral health and hygiene
14) NAOS Strategy (Strategy for nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention)
15) Prevention of accidents in children
16) Prevention of sports injuries and children. Sport and disease.
17) Recommendations for the teen program PAPPS
18) Presentation and discussion of group work.

Lectures and active. Encouraging student participation. This course will be reinforced with moodle platform resources. The last four hours of the program will go towards the realization of development projects.

Course evaluation will be made jointly by the three teachers of the subject, taking into account the following criteria:
- Attendance and participation in meetings (10%).
- Evaluation of Community Health concepts, prevention and health promotion. (10%) [Evaluation is predatory]

-Critical Reading + Class Discussión (40%)
- Design and presentation of a group health program (40%).

2ªConvocatoria.

- 80 % Trabajo escrito individual.

- El 20 % restante se conservará de la 1ªConvocatoria. (10% asistencia y participación, 10% Evaluación  de conceptos) Siempre y cuando se aprube el trabajo con un 5.

3ª,4ª y siguientes convocatorias si fuesen concedidas.

Previamente a matrícularse nuevamente a la asignatura deberá comprobar la compatibilidad con el resto de asignaturas. Se seguirán los mismos critérios de evaluación que para la 1ª y 2ª convocatoria

- Avaluació de conceptes de Salut comunitària, prevenció i promoció de la Salut. (10%) [Avaluació és de caràcter eliminatori]

-Lectura Critica + Discussió a clase (40%)

- Disseny i presentació grupal d'un programa de Salut (40%).

1. NJ Pender (2001) CMMP. Health Promotion in Nursing Practice. Prentice-Hall; Sánchez Moreno A. Enfermería Comunitaria. Concepto de Salud y factores que la condicionan. McGraw-Interamericana, 2000.

2. Martín Zurro, A.; Cano Pérez, J.F.: Atención Primaria: Conceptos, organización y práctica clínica. 2 vols. 5ª ed., Madrid: Harcourt Brace, 2003.

3. Del Rey,J, Calvo J.R. Como cuidar la salud. Harcourt Brace; 1998

4. Serrano González, Mª Isabel (coord.) . La Educación para la Salud del siglo XXI. Comunicación y salud. Madrid: Díaz de Santos, 2002.

5. Sánchez Moreno A, Germán Bes G, Mazarrasa Alvear M. Enfermería Profesional. Salud pública y enfermería comunitaria, McGraw-Interamericana, 2da ed 2003.

6. Klainberg M , Holzemer S, leonard M, Arnold J. Enfermeria Comunitaria: una alinaza para la salud. McGraw-Hill Interamericana; 2001.

7. Bases per a la integració de la prevenció a la pràctica assistencial. Llibre Blanc.Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Sanitat i Seguretat Social. Barcelona,1993.

8. Estratègies de salut per a l'any 2010. Pla de Salut de Catalunya 2002-2005. Barcelona: Direcció General de Salut Pública, 2003.

9. Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Programa de Actividades Preventivas y de Promoción de la Salud. Recomendaciones [citado Oct 2006]. Disponible en: http://www.papps.org/recomendaciones/index.html

10. Direcció General de Salud Pública. Llibre blanc: Consens sobre les activitats preventives a l'edat adulta dins l' atenció primària. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Salut; 2006.

11. Piédrola Gil G. Medicina preventiva y salud pública (10ª ed.) Barcelona: Masson;2001

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:

• E1 23/01/2013 12:00h
• R1 06/02/2013 10:00h
• R1 06/02/2013 16:00h
• E2 28/06/2013 10:00h
• R2 11/07/2013 11:00h