Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Health-Promoting Activities

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

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan

Head instructor

Dra. Laia WENNBERG - lwennberg@uic.es

Academic year: 2014-2015 1st Semester
Language: Castilian, Catalan
Schedule
12.00-14.00 Tuesday, 12.00-14.00 Wednesday and Thursday from 10.00 to 12.00
Professorat responsible
Laia WENNBERG - afe071911@uic.es
Professors Altres
Cerezuela Marian Tower - cerezuela@uic.es
Jose Agudo Ugena - jpagudo@uic.es

Hours
To be arranged with the teacher. (Advance sending an email.)
 

This is a new subject for 4th year students. To improve people's health is one of the fundamental objectives of nursing. Current scientific evidence shows that   there are different factors that influence in maintaining people's health and that a very important part of the state of health is due to lifestyle, behaviour and healthy habits. Evidence also reminds us that there are other factors beyond the individual as genetic, environment or socioeconomic conditions.

These are key elements to take into account when conducting health promotion and an effective disease prevention. Much of the health maintenance depends on the health professionals promotion. Public health strategies should aim to preserve   and improve health, anticipating problems of the individual and the community. Actions aimed at improving health must   always respect people's dignity. The latest health report of 2008 (WHO) identifies the renewal of primary health care (PHC) as the most necessary health policy for the coming years. The economic and political crisis poses to the state and institutional mechanisms the challenge of ensuring access to health services to all citizens, its supply and funding, including promotional activities.

• We recommend to revise all the previous content learnt about community nursing and Public Health.

• This course is very useful for those who will take the 4th year Practicum.

After completing the course the student will be able to:

1. Recognize the different programmes of health promotion and prevention.
2. Identify phases of design, planning, implementation and evaluation of health promotion programmes.
3. Interpret and critically analyze different programmes of health promotion and prevention strategies.
4. Design a Health Promotion Plan and be able to implement it 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.

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

• Identify individuals and families most at risk to certain diseases because of their hereditary component.
• Know the prevention strategies according to specific personal and family risks to suffer a disease.
• 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.
• Emphasize the importance of the relationship nurse-patient-family.
• Training in managing our own emotional reactions and those that come up in the relationship with patients, family and coworkers.
• Identify the socio-political and economic context that influence professional practice and the functioning of health organizations  
• Elaborate care plans, incorporating elements of the cultural context of the user within Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Develop, under supervision, care plans aimed at health promotion and disease prevention, adapted to the target population.
• Propose strategies to empower the person and the community.
• 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. 
• Understand the principles that determine behaviours related to health, its maintenance 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.
• Use available resources responsibly to ensure the system's sustainability and social justice.

• Introduction and conceptual aspects of prevention, promotion and health protection. Health promotion activities in the community. Radio, school, associations, high schools, social centers, etc.
• Required skills for the evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programmes.
• Design and planning health promotion and prevention programmes. Programme planning process, implementation and monitoring. Needs and demands assessment of the community.
• Preventive activities and health promotion programme (PAPPS).
• Community programmes for the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and toxic substances.
• Nutrition and Physical Activity Promotion Programmes.
• Hygiene Habits Promotion
• Healthy free time promotion.
• Accidents and injuries prevention.
• Sex education programmes. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) prevention programmes.
• Maternal education programmes. The family as the core generator of healthy habits in society. Health Tips: Physical activity and leisure time
• Environmental Health Programme.
• Health and school programme. Food in schools and healthy diet. Oral health and hygiene programme
• NAOS Strategy (Strategy for nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention) 
• Accident prevention at paediatric age
• Sports injuries prevention during childhood. Sport and disease. 
• Recommendations for the teenagers of the PAPPS programme 
• Presentation and discussion of group work. 

Lectures and active classes. Encouraging student participation. Resources from the moodle platform will be used during this course. During the last four hours of the programme students will develop promotion projects.

The teachers of the subject will jointly evaluate it, taking into account the following criteria:
Examination

1. Continual evaluation through four tutorials sessions of the final project (20%). 
2. Community Health Concepts assessment, prevention and health promotion. Prior knowledge test. (10%)
3. Critical Reading + Class discussion (20%)
4. Design and group presentation of a programme of Health (25%).  5. Written exam of the subject (25%)

Each evaluation activity will be passed with a mark equal or higher than 5 in order to pass the course
Activities 3, 4 and 5 need to be passed in order to do average. No make up exams are available for activities 1 and 2.

1st Resit

• Those parts that the students fail can be retaken. The marks of the passed parts will still be part of the average so they do not have to be retaken. 
• Passed activities cannot be retaken to improve the mark
• First Class Honours will not be awarded in first resit.

Second, third and following resits in the case they are granted:
Before enrolling again in the course you should check compatibility with other subjects. These will follow the same requirements as in the first examination and the first make up exam.

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

• E1 14/11/2016 08:00h
• R1 28/11/2016 11:00h
• E2 22/06/2017 10:00h
• R2 11/07/2017 10:00h