Methodologies for Community Intervention

Scholar Year: 2017/2018

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Ermelinda do Carmo Valente Caldeira Head Isaura da Conceição Cascalho Serra Colaborador

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL TC S E EL OT TPL O OT/PL Type of classes ,8 1,13 ,13 ,07 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical Totals 1 0,80 Theoretical-practical Totals 1 1,13 Seminário Totals 1 0,13 Orientação Tutorial Totals 1 0,07

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students are expected to:
● Understand the importance of community intervention in populations health’s promotion;
● Reflect on the importance of community participation in the construction and implementation of prevention, protection and promotion of health projects and active citizenship;
● Understand the importance of contributions from different areas (nursing, education, communication, humanities and social sciences) in the processes of community mobilization and participation;
● Discuss strategies for managing health information to groups and communities;
● Acquire theoretical and practical tools that support the intervention in Health Education / Promotion;
● Conceive community intervention projects, taking into account the socio-political and cultural context.

Syllabus

● Community intervention and health promotion
- Paradigms of health and community intervention strategies
- Ideological assumptions of community intervention
- Community intervention and leadership processes
● Training groups and communities in developing community intervention projects and citizenship
- Community / vulnerable groups
- Empowerment in health promotion: concepts and practices
● Contributions from different disciplines to the design of community intervention programs
● Management of health information to groups and community
- Communication techniques in health
- Active approaches in defining strategies of health promotion and education
- Specific information needs
● Theoretical and practical tools that support the intervention in Health Education / Promotion
- Theories and models in health promotion and education
● Construction stages of a project for Community intervention in the prevention, protection and promotion of health.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

The contents were selected and organized to meet the respective objectives and expected results taking into account the skills profile of the specialist nurse in community and public health nursing (Regulamento nº. 128/2011 DR, 2.ª série N.º 35 de 18 de Fevereiro de 2011).
In order to prepare nurses to lead community processes empowerment promoters of groups and communities in the construction and implementation of health projects and the exercise of citizenship, keeping in mind the Alma-Ata philosophy, the first points of the program seeks to contextualize students on the theme of community intervention, health promotion and health education. The last point is essentially aimed at students' skills for the design, coordination and evaluation of community intervention projects in the prevention, protection and promotion of health in different contexts.

Teaching methodologies

There will be selected teaching strategies that encourage the acquisition / deepening of knowledge by students, based on a research paper, reflection and analysis, guided and supported on the theoretical and practical teaching sessions and tutorials. Having underlying this philosophy, it is intended that students reflect on specialized clinical skills necessary to intervene in the community in various contexts.
The evaluation of the course is realized through a moment of formal assessment consisting in designing a project for community intervention in the prevention, protection and promotion of health in a given context. The form of assessment will be presented and discussed with the students in the first class. Students who do not obtain a grade equal to or higher than 10 are under examination. Students can also opt for assessment by examination as school calendar.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

Students will be encouraged from the start to intervene, questioning and answering questions whenever they need and consider it appropriate, thereby promoting their active participation during this stage of the training process and simultaneously achieve the learning outcomes expected for this CU. It uses guided reading, classroom discussions and literature. The lectures allow them to analyze and discuss concepts, paradigms and essential assumptions to the groups and communities training process. Each student being co-responsible for their learning is expected, on their part, a continuous reflection throughout their training process in order to develop the necessary skills for the design, management and evaluation of community intervention projects within the prevention, protection and health promotion in partnership with other institutions in the community, taking into account the different contexts.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

The form of assessment will be presented and discussed with the students in the first class. Students who do not obtain a grade equal to or higher than 10 are under examination. Students can also opt for assessment by examination as school calendar.

Bibliografia

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• McKenzie, J.; Neiger, B.; Brad, L. & Thackeray, R. (2013). Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer. 6.ª ed., London: Benjamin Cummings
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