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
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: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- To introduce the student to the design and implementation of health programs.
- To train the student in the identification of priority objectives for the design of health programs.
- To know the main health programs implemented in the Autonomous Community.
Design, implementation and evaluation of health programs.
Main health programs in Galicia divided into the following blocks:
- Screening in the child population.
- Screening in the general population
- Vaccination programs
- Programs related to communicable diseases
- Lifestyle and environmental health programs
Presentations and other documents provided at the virtual USC.
To teach the subject, different distance learning techniques will be used through the tools provided by the Virtual Campus (lessons, discussion forums, assignments, etc.), including those that favor discussion and collaborative work.
A calendar will be uploaded with the periods of time dedicated to each thematic block. The student will make a comprehensive reading of the materials uploaded to the Virtual Campus and the recommended bibliography, and will reflect on the contents of the subject through individual assignments. The assignments will consist of questions to which the student must provide short answers.
The tutorials may be face-to-face, by Teams and by e-mail.
Different distance learning techniques will be used through the options provided by the Moodle platform (lesson, discussion forums, tasks, etc.), including those that encourage discussion and collaborative work.
The evaluation system will be combined. On the one hand, there will be a continuous evaluation, through the monitoring of the assignments and the different tools of the virtual campus that allow the development of individual or collaborative work. In addition to this evaluation, there will be a final test. In order to pass the course, the student must obtain a minimum score of 5 points (out of 10) in each evaluation block (continuous evaluation and exam).
The evaluation of the student will be based on the following parameters:
1) Continuous evaluation: 70%.
There will be a continuous evaluation of the exercises of each of the blocks. The grade of the continuous evaluation will be the average of the grade received in the exercises.
2) Final test of contents: 30%.
The student who does not pass the subject at the first opportunity must complete a task designed by the teacher at the second opportunity.
For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests will apply the established in the "Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and review of qualifications".
The student will dedicate 75 hours to the study of the topics presented in the lecture, to the bibliographic search, to the preparation of homework and/or assignments and tutorials.
In order to pass the subject it will be enough to dedicate the necessary time to the reading and study of the recommended bibliography and the materials provided, as well as to present the assignments requested by the teacher throughout the course within the corresponding term. In order to pass the course, the student must obtain a minimum score of 5 points (out of 10) in each evaluation block (continuous evaluation and exam).
The preparation of the material presents no special difficulties.
It is recommended to keep up to date the material uploaded to the virtual classroom and the exercises and assignments proposed by the teacher.
Julia Rey Brandariz
Coordinador/a- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- juliarey.brandariz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
Cristina Candal Pedreira
- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- c.candal.pedreira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU