ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Center Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- Qualify the student to identify the most important environmental factors related to the health-disease process.
- Promote in the student the recognition and assessment of the relationships between environmental factors and the health of the community.
- Raising the awareness of the students on the need and importance of health protection to improve the well-being and the quality of life.
Lectures (9 hours):
1. Ecology and health
2. Environmental risk factors
3. Environmental management
Interactive teaching (12 hours):
Teamwork and visits to different centres of interest
Tutorials (3 hours)
- European Environmental Agency. Air quality in Europe — 2022. Disponible en: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2022
- Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica. Informe de la calidad del aire en España 2023. https://www.miteco.gob.es/content/dam/miteco/es/calidad-y-evaluacion-am…
- Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica. Perfil Ambiental de España 2023. Disponible en:
miteco.gob.es/content/dam/miteco/es/ministerio/servicios/informacion/pae/PAE_2023_InformeResumen_v2.pdf
- Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente. Programa estatal de prevención de residuos 2026-2032. Disponible en: https://www.miteco.gob.es/content/dam/miteco/es/calidad-y-evaluacion-am…
- Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente. Plan estatal marco de gestión de residuos (PEMAR) 2016-2022. Disponible en: https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/calidad-y-evaluacion-ambiental/planes-y-es…
- Ministerio de Sanidad, Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico. Plan Estratégico de Salud y Medioambiente 2022 – 2026. Disponible en: https://www.sanidad.gob.es/ciudadanos/pesma/docs/241121_PESMA.pdf
- Observatorio de la Sostenibilidad. Disponible en: https://www.observatoriosostenibilidad.com/
- Red Española de Ciudades Saludables. Disponible en: http://recs.es/
- Vida sostenible. Disponible en: http://www.vidasostenible.org/
- Xunta de Galicia. Consellería de Medio Ambiente, Territorio e Vivenda. Plan de xestión de residuos urbanos de Galicia (PXRUG) 2010-2020. Disponible en: https://sirga.xunta.gal/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=190428&nam…
- World Health Organization. (2021). WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/345329
General competences:
CG01 - Students are able to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar settings within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to Public Health
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context CB7 - Students are able to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar settings within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to Public Health, often in a research context
CB7 - Students are able to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study
CB8 - Students are able to integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgements based on information which, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the results of their work, incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the
application of their knowledge and judgements
CB9 - That students know how to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear and unambiguous way
CB10 - That students possess the learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
Specific competences:
CE01. Acquiring a broad vision of the concept of health and the main health models and systems.
SC02. Identify the risk factors that can affect health and know how they act.
SC07. Recognise and assess the relationships between environmental factors and the health of the community
SC09. Be able to synthesise the available scientific evidence in a rigorous and transparent way and transfer the result to the improvement of health care
Transversal competences
CT1 - Ability to manage information
CT2 - Work in an interdisciplinary team.
In the expositive sessions, the instructor will present the topics highlighting the most relevant and current aspects, encouraging student participation at all times. In addition, the tools provided by the Moodle platform of the virtual campus (lessons, assignments, etc.) and/or Microsoft Teams will be used.
In the interactive sessions, the students will visit different centres related to the contents of the subject. Prior to the interactive sessions, the instructor will communicate the objectives of the sessions, will provide the bibliography, and will organise the work in different groups to encourage teamwork. The student must have previously worked on the subject.
The student will carry out a comprehensive reading of the class materials and the recommended bibliography, and will reflect on the contents of the subject.
In case of absence in the interactive classes for a justified reason, the Regulations for class attendance in official degree and master's degree courses at the University of Santiago de Compostela will be followed.
To pass the course, the student must obtain a minimum score of 5 points (sum of the final exam and the work in the interactive sessions).
- Final written test (60% of the final grade). This test will measure the theoretical contents acquired, which may include multiple-choice questions, short question or topic. It is necessary that the grade obtained in the final test exceeds 50% of the maximum corresponding to this test, in order to be able to evaluate the work of the interactive sessions. For multiple-choice questions, the probability of getting a correct answer by chance shall be taken into account.
- Work of the interactive sessions (weight of 40% in the final grade).
Attendance at a minimum of 60% of the interactive classes will be a prerequisite for passing the course. The virtual classroom of the Moodle platform will be used to monitor class attendance. The manipulation or intentional falsification of this control will result in non-attendance and will be communicated to the Rectorado.
Students who do not pass the subject at the first opportunity will keep the mark for the interactive sessions' work. They will only have to take the final exam.
The student will dedicate at least 49 hours to the study of the topics presented in the lectures, to the bibliographic search and to the preparation of the interactive teaching.
Lecture class: 9
Seminar class: 12
Tutorials: 3
Assessment: 2
Student work: 49
The preparation of the course material does not present special difficulties.
The attendance of lectures and the active participation in the interactive sessions, together with the dedication of the necessary time to prepare the theoretical and interactive topics, is enough to pass the course.
In cases of fraudulent exercises or tests, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Maruxa Zapata Cachafeiro
- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- maruxa.zapata [at] usc.es
- Category
- PROFESOR/A PERMANENTE LABORAL
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| 16:30-19:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Medicine-Classroom Practices in Preventive Medicine and Public Health |
| 12.17.2025 16:30-19:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom Practices in Preventive Medicine and Public Health |
| 06.19.2026 16:30-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom Practices in Preventive Medicine and Public Health |