Syllabus
1. Health policies
1.1. Policies: concept and taxonomy
1.2. Guidelines for International, National and Regional Health Policies
1.3. Health systems
1.4. The recent history of the Portuguese health system
1.5. Primary Health Care
2. Community Nursing
2.1. Community
2.2. Community nursing applications
2.3. Vulnerability
2.4. Nursing process to groups and community
3. School Health
3.1. Historical Perspective of School Health in Portugal
3.2. Health Promotion in Schools - Health Promoting Schools
3.3. National School Health Program
Teaching Methods
The course provides theoretical, theoretical-practical and practical teaching moments.
The most appropriate methods for achieving the learning objectives, at the end of the teaching period, aim at developing the competences in the students, for which, in addition to the expository method, the active one was chosen.
As strategies and learning activities that result from the Methods to be adopted during the course, the following are provided: research, selection and organization of content and autonomous work in order to mobilize the resources made available by teachers and other resources; analysis and reflection of concepts; use of Brainstorming techniques to build concepts / definitions; presentation of questions for reflection and debate and group work.
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