NURSING IN THE PROMOTION AND HEALTH EDUCATION
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Acquire the concept of “health promotion” and “health education”.
Provide students with the necessary methodologies for planning, implementation and evaluation of health education and health promotion interventions.
Course contents summary
Health education, health promotion
Course contents
CONCEPT OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
• definition of advocacy, empowerment, equity.
MAIN THEORIES AND MODELS FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
• PRECEDE-PROCEED, stages of change, ecological approach, salutogenic approach, theory of social marketing.
TO PROJECT INTERVENTION HEALTH EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS
• Identify problems and needs, define goals, define target population, identify resources, how to fill a project plan template.
EDUCATION HEALTH ADDRESSED TO PATIENT
• tools and methods: counselling, group care
Recommended readings
Igiene e sanità pubblica, educazione sanitaria. Strategie educative e preventive per il paziente e la comunità. F. Auxilia, M. Pontello, a cura di A. Pellai ed. Piccin 2012
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and working group
Assessment methods and criteria
Written test
