Ecologia da Saúde (not translated)
Code
722071073
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Ana Paula Gil
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
It is expected that students will acquire and/or develop:
1) the ability to describe today´s main demographic trends and to interpret them as social challenges;
2) the capacity to analyse the key epidemiological aspects of aging
3) the ability to analyze the determinants of health in an ecological perspective
4) the ability to analyze the binomial health - disease
5) the ability to analyze health inequalities and the role of policies and intervention models in health
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Ecology of health: the concept
The implications of applying the ecology concept to health.
Public health: definition and evolution of a concept.
2.The ecological perspective of Health determinants.
Globalization and new emerging risks
3. Global demographic dynamics
Demographic systems.
Demographic transition and epidemiological transition
4. The dynamics of European and Portuguese populations
European diversity: facts and figures
Impacts of demographic changes
The Portuguese population
5. Mortality, morbidity and health. Epidemiological aspects of aging
Measurement questions
Main indicators of mortality and morbidity
Impact of aging on public health
6. Health and disease
Concepts definition. How to define health?
The social construction of the disease and its cultural diversity.
The medicalization of society. Chronical diseases and normalization.
7. Inequalities in health. Health promotion
Bibliography
BAER, H. A., & SINGER, M(2009) Global warming and the political ecology of health: emerging crises and systemic solutions. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
BERNABEU-MESTRE, J(2001) The Epidemiological Unification of Disease History, IUSSP, Florença
BOLEYN, T., & HONARI, M(2013) Health Ecology: Health, culture and human-environment interaction. Routledge
CABRAL, M. V (Coor) (2002) Saúde e doença em Portugal, Imp. Ciências Sociais
CARAPINHEIRO, G(2001) A globalização do risco social, in B. Sousa Santos (Org) Globalização, fatalidade ou utopia?, Ed Afrontamento
CARRICABURU, D; MENORET, M(2004) Sociologie de la Santé, Institutions professions et maladies, Ed. Arm. Colin
FERNANDES, A(2008) Questões demográficas. Demografia e Sociologia da população, Lisboa, Ed Colibri
GRISOTTI, M; AVILA-PIRES,F(2010) Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches. Medical Soc., vol 11, 61-75
HERZLICH, C(1996) Santé et Maladie. Analyse dune représentation sociale. Éd lÉcole Hautes Ét
Teaching method
Individual written assesssment during sessions with mandatory oral discussion. The individual assessment corresponds to a paper to be submitted to a scientific meeting or magazine. Continuous assessment (preparation of reading sheets and oral presentations).
Evaluation method
Avaliação: trabalho final - 70%; avaliação contínua - 30%.