Sport and Health in School Context

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Method of face-to-face teaching with lectures in the form of seminars, to which must be added a component of fieldwork-based learning and problem solving and presentation of solutions.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit aims to provide the student: [1] the knowledge and the application of the conceptual model of school sport; [2] the knowledge and the application of the paradigmatic models of relations between sport and health; [3] the knowledge and the application of the main methodologies for assessment of health-related fitness; [4] the ability to use epidemiological tools to characterize functional and metabolic fitness; [5] the ability to build a conceptual framework of prescription and monitoring of training in school context, within the perspective of health.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

[1] Theoretical model: sport; physical condition; health. Interconnections of concepts; [2] components of health related fitness: cardiorespiratory; morphology; muscle-skeletal; percetivo-kinetics; metabolic; [3] epidemiology of physical activity and health in school context; [4] levels of prevention: primordial; primary; secondary; tertiary; quaternary; [5] general and specific principles of prescription for health; [6] physical activity and cardiovascular risk; [7] evaluation of physical fitness in school context. Application of batteries of tests. Interpretation of results.

Head Lecturer(s)

Raul Agostinho Simões Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation is performed based on the elaboration of a plan to boost sports school activities for health (80%), including oral presentation (20%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

American College of Sports Medicine (2009). ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Bonita, R., Beaglehole, R. & Kjellstrom, T. (2006). Basic epidemiology. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Bouchard, C. & Shephard, R. J. (1994). Physical activity, fitness, and health: The model and key concepts. In C. Bouchard, R. J. Shephard & T. Stephens (Eds.), Physical activity, fitness, and health, Champaign. IL: Human Kinetics, 77-88.

Krotee, M. L. & Bucher C. A. (2007). Management of Physical Education and Sport, New York: McGrawHill.

Martins, R. (2006). Exercício físico e saúde pública. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.

Swain, D. P. & Leutholtz B. C. (2007). Exercise prescription. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.