Health Education and Promotion
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Provide theories and methods to promote individual health and support people in managing their health conditions through developmental phases
Provide knowledge to comprehend relational and learning processes and promote people's responsibility about their health status
Provide knowledge about group dynamics and methods to promote people's health
Provide practical skills to develop assessment tools in the context of health promotion
Provide knowledge to comprehend relational and learning processes and promote people's responsibility about their health status
Provide knowledge about group dynamics and methods to promote people's health
Provide practical skills to develop assessment tools in the context of health promotion
Expected learning outcomes
Provide an up-to-date overview of the leading theories and methodologies in health education and promotion;
Promote ability to practically apply this knowledge in health promotion;
Promote communicative abilities and understanding of group dynamics;
Foster skills in evaluating the effectiveness of health promotion programs;
Foster critical judgment about health and illness
Promote ability to practically apply this knowledge in health promotion;
Promote communicative abilities and understanding of group dynamics;
Foster skills in evaluating the effectiveness of health promotion programs;
Foster critical judgment about health and illness
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
There are no prerequisites
Assessment methods and Criteria
Multiple choice test with also open questions
All the exams take place on the same day
All the exams take place on the same day
General psychology
Course syllabus
Words for talking about adolescence: sociocultural representations and imaginaries.
Discursive plots and conceptual maps: the understanding and interpretive patterns of human knowledge about adolescence and effects in everyday practices.
The specific contribution of the pedagogical perspective on adolescence to substantiating educational and health promotion work with adolescents in a professional sense.
Tools for pedagogical analysis of educational intervention and health promotion contexts addressed to adolescents
Designing experiences, concrete instruments, and pedagogical intervention strategies with adolescents.
Discursive plots and conceptual maps: the understanding and interpretive patterns of human knowledge about adolescence and effects in everyday practices.
The specific contribution of the pedagogical perspective on adolescence to substantiating educational and health promotion work with adolescents in a professional sense.
Tools for pedagogical analysis of educational intervention and health promotion contexts addressed to adolescents
Designing experiences, concrete instruments, and pedagogical intervention strategies with adolescents.
Teaching methods
Classes will be held in presence. Course contents will be offered by combining lectures with active teaching methodologies, that promotes and encourages students' active participation, ad which give priority to group-based and interactive activities inherent to the topics examined..
Teaching Resources
Barone P. (2019), Gli anni stretti. L'adolescenza tra presente e futuro, FrancoAngeli
Some learning materials will be made directly available by the lecturer.
- Papers and other texts discussed during lessons
Some learning materials will be made directly available by the lecturer.
- Papers and other texts discussed during lessons
Theories and science of education and social education
Course syllabus
The course aims to investigate the educational dimension concerning the profession of health assistant, in particular the activity of health promotion. The epistemological reference framework will therefore be explored alongside methodologies and intervention tools.
The learning objective is to develop knowledge related to:
- education and educational experiences: some attempts at classification;
- pedagogy and social pedagogy;
- health and wellness;
- promotion and prevention (educational);
- the subject and the subjects of the intervention (the individual and the community);
- the study of the territory: context and recipient of the educational action;
- the project and the intervention: theory and practice.
At the end of the course, the students will have to know and recognize the educational dimension concerning the profession of the health assistant, in particular the activity of health promotion.
They will therefore have to be able to design and implement educational experiences that develop knowledge, skills and abilities in terms of health and well-being, through promotion and educational prevention programs aimed to different subjects (children, adults, seniors; individuals and groups). For this objective, they will need to know methodologies and tools for the analysis of a territory and for the planning and implementation of an intervention.
The learning objective is to develop knowledge related to:
- education and educational experiences: some attempts at classification;
- pedagogy and social pedagogy;
- health and wellness;
- promotion and prevention (educational);
- the subject and the subjects of the intervention (the individual and the community);
- the study of the territory: context and recipient of the educational action;
- the project and the intervention: theory and practice.
At the end of the course, the students will have to know and recognize the educational dimension concerning the profession of the health assistant, in particular the activity of health promotion.
They will therefore have to be able to design and implement educational experiences that develop knowledge, skills and abilities in terms of health and well-being, through promotion and educational prevention programs aimed to different subjects (children, adults, seniors; individuals and groups). For this objective, they will need to know methodologies and tools for the analysis of a territory and for the planning and implementation of an intervention.
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons and exercises
Teaching Resources
Barone P. (2019), Gli anni stretti. L'adolescenza tra presente e futuro, FrancoAngeli
Materials prepared by the Professor
Materials prepared by the Professor
Methodologies of teaching and special education
Course syllabus
The course aims to deepen the themes of educational promotion and prevention, analyzing the theoretical references and examining some methods of intervention, towards the individual and the community/territory.
The origins and evolution of preventative actions will therefore be investigated, in particular with regard to substance abuse (as a field of application of intervention strategies). Some projects and concrete experiences will also be analyzed.
Scrutinized topics:
- educational promotion and prevention: the reference framework;
- the evolution of intervention strategies: the case of substance abuse;
- the concept of risk in health education;
- educational and preventative relationship;
- theories and models.
At the end of the course, the students will have to know the theories and models of reference on which educational promotion and prevention interventions towards the individual and the community/territory are based (concerning substance abuse in particular).
They must also be able to plan, implement and evaluate an educational action in this area.
The origins and evolution of preventative actions will therefore be investigated, in particular with regard to substance abuse (as a field of application of intervention strategies). Some projects and concrete experiences will also be analyzed.
Scrutinized topics:
- educational promotion and prevention: the reference framework;
- the evolution of intervention strategies: the case of substance abuse;
- the concept of risk in health education;
- educational and preventative relationship;
- theories and models.
At the end of the course, the students will have to know the theories and models of reference on which educational promotion and prevention interventions towards the individual and the community/territory are based (concerning substance abuse in particular).
They must also be able to plan, implement and evaluate an educational action in this area.
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons and exercises
Teaching Resources
S. A. Rossetti (2009), La prevenzione educativa, Carocci editore, Roma
Hygiene and public health
Course syllabus
Analysis of main strategies and interventions targeting prevention needs among pre-teens and teens
Risk-taking processes in developmental age: analysis and prevention priorities
Sensation seeking processes in developmental age: analysis and prevention priorities
How to empower youn teens to reduce high risk behaviours and to promote functional risk taking
Media education and Health education: how and why integrate these two educational approaches when working with young teens
Peer education: theories, strategies and implementation processes.
Empowered peer education: a peer education model aimed at empowering health enhancing behaviors among teens
How to plan and implement a peer education proogram in a school or in a community
Risk-taking processes in developmental age: analysis and prevention priorities
Sensation seeking processes in developmental age: analysis and prevention priorities
How to empower youn teens to reduce high risk behaviours and to promote functional risk taking
Media education and Health education: how and why integrate these two educational approaches when working with young teens
Peer education: theories, strategies and implementation processes.
Empowered peer education: a peer education model aimed at empowering health enhancing behaviors among teens
How to plan and implement a peer education proogram in a school or in a community
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Teaching Resources
A. Pellai Educazione sanitaria, strategie educative e preventive per il paziente e la comunità Piccin editore (2012)
Applied medical techniques
Course syllabus
The integration of the heath community and the multidimentional evaluation (VDM), working in network
- Interviewing the adult in difficulty and the fragile elderly in the different welfare settings
- The meaning of the welfare complexity
- The home visit at the elderly person in the contest of the multidimentional evaluation (VMD) the role of the care giver
- Taking charge of the elderly person in accordance with the new Lea following the Law RL 11 August 2015, nr. 23
- The evolution of the Lombardy community health system
- Interviewing the adult in difficulty and the fragile elderly in the different welfare settings
- The meaning of the welfare complexity
- The home visit at the elderly person in the contest of the multidimentional evaluation (VMD) the role of the care giver
- Taking charge of the elderly person in accordance with the new Lea following the Law RL 11 August 2015, nr. 23
- The evolution of the Lombardy community health system
Teaching methods
Frontal Method, , Role Playing, Problem Based Learninig
Teaching Resources
Slides made by the Professor, minimal and non exhaustive bibliography consulted
M. Cesa-Bianchi "The recovery capabilities of the elderly - patterns tools and interventions for the healthcare professionals" published 2019
The families are telling: dementias caregiver experiences. May 2018 Ars Tuscany
Pilotto, P. D'Ambrosio, C. Scarcelli, L. Cascavilla, V. Niro, M.G. Longo, F. Paris, D. Seripa, G. Placentino, M. Corritore, M. Franceschi "The new frontier in the geriatrics research - the multidimentional evaluation and the prevention in the geriatric age2 GERONTOL 2006; 54 (Suppl 2); 59-64
C.J.O'Leary, "Consueling for the couple and the family, an approach centered on the person" Published by Erickson, ninth reprint february 2018
M. Cesa-Bianchi "The recovery capabilities of the elderly - patterns tools and interventions for the healthcare professionals" published 2019
The families are telling: dementias caregiver experiences. May 2018 Ars Tuscany
Pilotto, P. D'Ambrosio, C. Scarcelli, L. Cascavilla, V. Niro, M.G. Longo, F. Paris, D. Seripa, G. Placentino, M. Corritore, M. Franceschi "The new frontier in the geriatrics research - the multidimentional evaluation and the prevention in the geriatric age2 GERONTOL 2006; 54 (Suppl 2); 59-64
C.J.O'Leary, "Consueling for the couple and the family, an approach centered on the person" Published by Erickson, ninth reprint february 2018
Applied medical techniques
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Tidone Enrica Teresa
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Tidone Enrica Teresa
General psychology
M-PSI/01 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Hygiene and public health
MED/42 - HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Pellai Alberto
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Pellai Alberto
Methodologies of teaching and special education
M-PED/03 - METHODOLOGIES OF TEACHING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Theories and science of education and social education
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Valenzano Nicolo'
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Valenzano Nicolo'Professor(s)