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IPLUSO 22298

Health Education and First Aid

Monitoring Children and Young People
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    To work with children, adolescents, and young people, students must prepare by building knowledge and developing skills that enable them to be active agents in health education, capable, as professionals and citizens, of promoting health and preventing disease, as well as being capable of responding to specific emergency situations. In this course, students develop health promotion skills and the ability to act with the necessary confidence in risk and emergency situations for those under their care.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    1- Health prevention and promotion Health and disease Health determinants Policy and Health System Health Education - Fundamentals and Development Role of professionals in health promotion Health promoting schools and health prevention and promotion initiatives at school and other contexts National Vaccination Plan Individual and collective hygiene 2- Risk behaviors and healthy behaviors Psychoactive substances (licit and illicit drugs) Problems linked to alcohol and other additions Physical activity and healthy habits 3- Sex education in school environment Sexuality, reproduction and affections Sexually Transmitted Infections - IST 4- Mental Health Grow safely Violence and abuse in school and at home 5- Nutrition Food and Nutrients Food Wheel Healthy and balanced eating Eating disorders 6- FIRST AID Basic notions Basic Life Support Victim examination Most common emergency situations
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    Define Basic Concepts related to Health and Health Education. Understand the role of the professional in the development of healthy lifestyles, and culture of prevention and health promotion in institutional, school, family and community context. Critically explore knowledge linked to programmatic health content. Identify the main areas of intervention in health education, relating them to health needs and indicators. Analyze interventions to implement in the scope of health education, and resources that can be used with this purpose. Identify factors and behaviors promoting health and quality of life, and mobilize knowledge of health determinants, to adopt healthy lifestyles, for students to develop skills to apply to their future professional life. Recognize emergency situations and act according to the need for protection and help of children/adolescents/young people in charge.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. (2023). Manual básico de primeiros socorros - Escola de Socorrismo Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. 15ª ed.  Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. Dahlgren, G., & Whitehead, M. (1991). Policies and strategies to promote social equity in health. Institute for Future Studies. Direção Geral da Educação. (2017). Referencial de Educação para a Saúde. https://www.dge.mec.pt/sites/default/files/Esaude/referencial_educacao_saude_vf_junho2017.pdf Direção Geral da Saúde – DGS. (2024). O Programa Nacional para a Promoção da Alimentação Saudável (PNPAS). https://alimentacaosaudavel.dgs.pt/bem-vindo-ao-pnpas/ Direção Geral da Saúde, DGS, (2005). Princípios para uma alimentação saudável. https://www.aleitamentomaterno.pt/images/principios_aliment_saudavel.pdf Direção Geral da Saúde, DGS, (2015). Programa Nacional de Saúde Escolar – PNSE. https://www.arsnorte.min-saude.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/01/Programa_NSE_2015.pdf  
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    Active methodologies centered on the construction of knowledge by the students are promoted.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    6
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não