Subject

Health and Development and Complementary Therapy

  • code 09825
  • course 4
  • term Semester 1
  • type op
  • credits 3

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Teaching staff

Head instructor

Lc. Rafael GUAYTA - rguayta@uic.es

Other instructors

MsU Eva María SÁNCHEZ - emsanchez@uic.es

Office hours

  • Via mail and appointment of teachers of the subject:


- Rafale Guayta

- Eva Sanchez


Date of renovation of the Teaching Guide: May 2012

Introduction

 Complementary Therapies Health and Development and a block consists of 2 courses introduce students to international health and complementary therapies. Offer students a general content on the epidemiological aspects, the phenomenon of immigration and the main health problems of immigrant populations, as well as some basic knowledge of complementary therapies in which nurses can develop as a professional.


 

The course is taught in English and Spanish.

 

Pre-course requirements

  • Not required

Objectives

Health and Development and Complementary Therapies

  • Know the different scenarios inherent in the concept of international health.
  • Learn what the role of professionals and to develop activities in primary health care in the context of international health
  • Understand and assess tropical diseases under its international perspective.
  • Assess the impact of emerging diseases i reemerging in an epidemiological context
  • Analyze the ethical issues in international health
  • Understand the fundamentals of planning and development programs and projects in low income countries.
  • Know which are the Complementary Therapies
  • Complementary Therapies Relating to nursing care and its evolution throughout history.
  • Integrate nursing models and the holistic approach
  • Integrating Complementary Therapies as a means to provide care
  • Learn tools within Complementary Therapies to promote self-care

 

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.
  • 17. E - Perform nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multidisciplinary cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
  • 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.
  • 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
  • 26. G - Ability to generate knowledge from practice.
  • 27. G - Ability to adapt to new situations.
  • 30. E - Learn the strategies to provide comfort and treat symptoms, aimed at the patient and family in the implementation of palliative care, that contribute to alleviating the situation of advanced and terminal patients.
  • 3. E - Know and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principals of nursing.
  • 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
  • 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.
  • 8. B - Promote and respect the right of participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in decision-making of people treated, according to the way they live their health - disease process..
  • 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 this course the student will be able to:

  • I understand biological and social aspects of health on a global stage.
  • Analyze the goals to achieve in the international framework based on epidemiological and social needs.
  • Understand the issues involved in developing professional skills to work in tropical medicine scenarios.
  • Learn the skills and attitudes to serve immigrant communities under the national health system, mainly in Primary Health Care
  • Know the professional development of nursing care and its scope in terms of natural therapies.
  • Understanding Complementary Therapies as a tool of the therapeutic arsenal available to the nursing profession in the accompaniment of the processes of health and / or illness of users. In addition to strengthening the holistic view of the user through the prism of Complementary Therapies

 

Syllabus

1-International Health

1. - Definition of international health. Introduction and relevant issues in a global world.

2. - Magnitude epidemiological, social magnitude and burden of disease from imported diseases and cosmopolitan.

3. - Ecology and health.

4. - Poverty and disease

5. - Concept Review of epidemiological chain of the major tropical diseases.

6. - Emerging and reemerging diseases.

7. - Primary immigrants.

8. - Planning and development programs and projects in low income countries.


2-Complementary Therapies

1. -Know which are the description of this database and some of them (reflexology, Kinesiology, Lymphatic Drainage Therapy, Floral Dr. Bach, Technical Metamófica, Therapeutic Touch, Massage Therapy, ...)
2. -Relating to Complementary Therapies nursing care and its evolution throughout history.
3. -Integrate nursing models and holistic approach.
4-Integrating Complementary Therapies as a means to provide care.
5.-know tools in Complementary Therapies to promote self-care

Teaching and learning activities

In person

Oriented teaching methods will be used to acquire knowledge and attitudes.

The student must participate in class and in workshops, discussing and debating the proposed topics.


  • Lectures
  • Individual work: readings and exercises
  • Discussion and group participation.
  • Work final evaluation
  • Training workshops


Some exercises will be worked in class, others are done independently. Be sent by moodle and / or presented in class

 

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person

The evaluation will take into account the following criteria:

  International Health

    1. Attendance and participation in seminars (20%).
    2. Works on-line (10%). Critical reading and analysis of items related to the agenda of the subject.
    3. Knowledge test (50%)
    4. Resolution of case study (20%)

Complementary Therapies

  •  Attendance and participation in the sessions. Readings and class work (30%).
  •  Practice tracking the proposed seminars in class (40%)
  •  Individual work end (30%). 

 2ª convocatoria

Remain the same for many hundreds in the first call, and on the 3rd and 4th. (Also for 5th and 6th if grant)

Bibliography and resources

@  Peters W; Pasvol G. Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 5th Edition Mosby International Ltd. 2002

@  Bell Dion R. Tropical Medicine 4th ed. Blackwell Science 2001

@  Salud Internacional y farmacia vol. 2. Atención farmacéutica en salud internacional. Ediciones Mayo. Barcelona 2009

@  Balanzó X. Faixedas MT. Guayta R. Els immigrants i la seva salud. Quaderns de la Bona Praxi (16). Consell Català de Col.legis de Metges. Barcelona,2003

 

@  Protocol d’atenció a infants immigrants. Programa de seguiment del nen sa. Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Salut. Barcelona 2005

@  Guayta R. Patología Importada i Immigració: Mites i Realitats (I)              Circular farmacèutica, 2004; 62(1): 25-31

@  Guayta R. Pérez M. Patología Importada i Immigració: Mites i Realitats (II).Circular farmacèutica 2004; 62(2): 71-74

@  Guayta R. Patología Importada i Immigració: Mites i Realitats (III). Circular farmacèutica 2004; 62(4): 29-36

@  Guayta R. Epidemiología de la inmigración. El fenómeno en cifras. El Farmacèutico (suplemento monográfico Inmigración: un nuevo reto social y sanitario). Febrero 2006

@  Guayta R. Altet N. Prevenció i control de les tuberculosis importades. Circular farmacèutica 2006; 64(4): 27-36

@  CAMFyC . Guia per l’abordatge de la població immigrant des de l’Atenció Primària de la salut.

Evaluation period

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

  • E1 14/01/2013 10:00h
  • E1 25/01/2013 12:00h
  • R1 25/01/2013 14:00h
  • R1 07/02/2013 16:00h
  • R1 07/02/2013 10:00h
  • E2 28/06/2013 12:00h
  • E2 28/06/2013 10:00h
  • R2 11/07/2013 13:00h
  • R2 11/07/2013 12:00h
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