Economic and Social History of Health Care in Portugal

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical lessons / Final written examination, 100%.

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with the knowledge on health systems and policies in Portugal since the 16th century to the 20th century, giving them increased capacity to understand the solutions and the current proposals.

Knowing the broad guidelines of economic and social health in the same period and explain their importance for the development of the country, to protect the health of citizens and for the professional autonomy of the different health agents.

Knowing the social transformations/familiares surveillance of the patient, in the last 500 years and the evolution of attitudes towards life and death, giving them critical capacity to understand the perceptions and current practices.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Institutional network

1. Origins, objectives and financial support of the institutions: Hostels, hospitals, Misericords, Enjeitados wheels, Confraternities and third orders.

2. Preventive medicine, health and social policy organization.

3. The private and public sectors.

4. Hospital Specialization.

The health workers and patients

1. The hospital clientele and patients treated in households.

2. Health professionals and the evolution of their social status.

3. The hospital efficiency.

The experience of death

1. Mortality Levels.

2. Evolution of attitudes to death: death in the Centre of life to death taboo.

3. Monitoring of the terminally ill.

4. Death enshrined and at home to death desritualizada on institutional context.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Antónia da Silva Figueiredo Lopes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

• Lopes, Maria Antónia - Protecção Social em Portugal na Idade Moderna, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2010.

• Lopes, Maria Antónia - “As grandes datas da existência: momentos privados e rituais públicos” em História da Vida Privada em Portugal dir. por José Mattoso, vol. III, Época Contemporânea, coord. por Irene Vaquinhas, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores e Temas e Debates, 2011 (pp. 178-191 referentes à morte).

• Lopes, Maria Antónia - “Os pobres e a assistência pública” em História de Portugal dir. por José Mattoso, vol. V, O Liberalismo, coord. por Luís R. Torgal e João L. Roque, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1993, pp. 500-515.

• Silva, Ana Isabel - A arte de enfermeiro: Escola de Enfermagem Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2008.