Innovative Strategies for Health Education

Recommended Prerequisites

Degree in Health Sciences.

Teaching Methods

Expository and interrogative method for presentation and discussion of the concepts

Guided search method.

Written evaluation at the end of the course: single instrument, built with the integration of the various syllabuses.

Learning Outcomes

 - To understand the importance of Health Education and literacy in the process of citizen engagement, training and co-responsibility with health

- To justify the advantage of the collaborative and comprehensive research methodology, in Health Education, compared to experimental and explanatory methodologies

- To demonstrate the importance of Health Education strategies appropriate to specific contexts and to specific populations throug.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- To analyze the principles that underlie and differentiate the actions of Health Education, Therapeutic Education and Health Literacy and relate to the need for citizens' co-responsibility

- Collaborative and comprehensive Research in Health Education versus experimental and explanatory methodologies (two paradigms)

- Models of Health Education

- Strategies for Health Education, considering the priority health issues, the specific contexts and the development of people throughout the life cycle (children, adolescents and young people, adults, elderly).

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 100.0%

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RODRIGUES, Manuel Alves ; PEREIRA, Anabela ; BARROSO, Teresa (2005) – Educação para a Saúde: Formação Pedagógica dos Educadores de saúde. 1ª ed. Coimbra: Formasau – Formação e Saúde, Lda. 155 p. ISBN 972-8485-52-2.