Society and Health: International Cooperation in Health
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Responsible: MSU. Juan María Angeles mdejuan@csc.uic.es
Course 4 °.
Academic year: 2012-1013 1st Semester
Hours: Tuesday 10.10-12.00, Wednesday: 12.00-14.00 and 8.00-9.50
Date of renovation of the Teaching Guide: May 2012
Society and Health is a subject to students in 4th grade. Located at the mention of Community, may be extended by the students of the Clinic mention. In the words is a subject International Cooperation in International Health 3 ECTS has in common with this subject. This subject aims to introduce the projects of development cooperation, from the perspective Nurse. How you can participate in all phases of professional nursing. In Society and Health course will develop further some issues from a perspective not only international but regional and local levels.
After the matter of "Society and Health", you will be able to:
- Identify environmental and social factors influencing health
- Assess the importance of food and its risks.
- Understand the importance of the relationship between health, urban planning, housing and environment.
- To know the city more humane social and ecologically.
- Ask care plans, incorporating elements of the cultural setting of the user and in the context of nursing code of ethics.
- To propose strategies to develop the empowerment of the individual and the community.
- Recognize the promotion and health education as a fundamental tool to empower individuals and the community to maintain and, especially, to improve their health.
- Understand the principles that determine the health-related behaviors in the maintenance, retention and modification.
- Plan, design, implement and evaluate health programs, community-focused. Identify strategies for action in health promotion.
- Identify the different health workers within the community.
- Recognize the different cultures that coexist in our society
1. How to develop an international cooperation project: phases of the project design. Examples of projects in Africa, Latin America, India, etc..
2. Knowing the field: how to make health diagnosis. Assessment of the health of the Community. Working with leaders, community workers.
4. List of major assistance in disadvantaged situations.
5. Homemade cures and opinions. Home Remedies: Healing without medicine.
6. Seminars and workshops on health promoter training, sessions for parents, workshops for children in schools, health literacy, home visits, health care, prevention workshops.
7. Asking support for the development of a project.
8. Dissemination of information: news releases, radio, television and the Internet, participation in conferences, journal articles, etc.Photography Workshop: Photography for the project.
9. Research: research on Health Cooperation programs
The methodology will be varied, usually taking a more active exhibition and other exercises in the classroom. Among others, used videos, there will be workshops, seminars (photography, video, etc.). Discussion, role playing etc..
The evaluation will be done through continuous assessment which takes into account the following:
- Participation (attendance, active participation, etc.) a class exercises: 20%.
- Workshops and seminars for prevention and health promotion. Group work will be assessed written and oral presentation 50% (20 minute workshop will have a 30% and 5 minutes, 20%).
- Exercise photographs of projects (will be individually and independently and sent through the virtual platform moodle) 5%.
- Exercise: writing a news about a project (will be individually and independently and sent through the virtual platform moodle) 10%.
- Exercises for items 3 (organization of societies and leadership) and 4 (resilience and helping relationship in disadvantaged situations) 15%
In the second call will take into account the results of continuous assessment. The note for participation and class exercises can not be recovered. Yes you should make those other exercises that have not been overcome and deliver for 6/27/13 before 10am.
For the third and fourth call will apply the same criteria as for the first and second.
Before registration in the course again should be looked compatibility with other subjects.
For the 3rd and 4th, will apply the same criteria as for the 1st and 2nd.