22039 - HEALTH EDUCATION

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Sara González Millán

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 6

• Catalan
• Spanish

Health education should be understood as a process aimed at using effective strategies to help individuals adopt or modify behaviors that improve their health or prevent possible health problems. In this sense, health education must be approached from a complex multidimensional perspective. Society currently identifies the practice of physical activity and sports as a means to promote and improve health, both in terms of physical, emotional and mental well-being. There are many institutions involved in the task of planning and managing actions in health education. We will learn about the strategies set by the WHO in all countries on the need to promote programs and promotion plans and how it is supported by the European Union, as well as its own national or state programs.

- Recognize the basics of healthy physical activity and its relationship with sedentary lifestyle throughout the life cycle: childhood and youth, adulthood and aging, emphasizing active and healthy aging as an improvement in the quality of life.

- Be able as a professional to promote healthy behaviors and educate in the importance of acquiring healthy habits

- Acquire life skills that will help improve health from physical, emotional and mental well-being

The methodology of the subject will be carried out in person, with a compulsory attendance of 80% and combining face-to-face classroom time, with autonomous work and in groups or pairs, with the support of the virtual learning environment.

The percentage of time the student spends is distributed as follows:

Each ECTS is equivalent to 25 hours of student dedication, considering the time invested in the total of the activities related to the face-to-face time and the time of autonomous work, that the professor of the subject guides, as well as the reading times, information search, connection to the Virtual Classroom, elaboration of works. 

Topic 1. Introduction (Background and theoretical framework)

Subject 2. Competences of the professional + habits in EPS

Topic 3: Theories of Behavior (TC) + Adherence to physical activity

Topic 4. Motivating change: Motivational Interview and Awareness Conference

Topic 5: Setting goals

Item 6: Evaluation of an intervention in EPS

Item 7: Design of community actions

Item 8: Intervention and planning

Topic 9: Communication in EpS

Topic 10: Session design

The activities of the subject follow the system of continuous evaluation, that is to say, that throughout the term the teacher proposes several activities, that the students must solve and deliver. The work of each one of the activities allows to value the student, the follow-up with respect to the asignatura and the elements of improvement, from the comments and notes that the professor will do of the activities. The proposed activities can be individual or in work groups. The teacher gives the instructions so that the students can elaborate and deliver. All the activities proposed are designed so that students have a practical perspective on the topics that are developed during the ten weeks of the term.

The subject is face-to-face, with a compulsory attendance of 80%.

Qualification system (Royal Decree 1125/2003, 5 September) that establishes the European system of credits and the system of qualifications to the university degrees of official character and validity in all the state territory:

0-4,9: Suspended

5,0-6,9: Approved

7,0-8,9: Notable

9,0 - 10: Excellent

The final grade of the student is the result of a continuous assessment through various assessment activities. The pass of the subject is obtained with a grade equal to or higher than 5 points (out of 10 points) according to the following weighting table:

The final grade will be obtained through a continuous assessment valued at 100% of the grade of the subject (individual work and group work). In order to be eligible for the continuous assessment, taking an average and being able to pass the subject requires:

• Obtain a grade equal to or higher than 5/10 in the sum of group work and individual work in order to be able to average with the other grades
• To be presented all the activities and works within the established term
• Delivered and / or made through the virtual classroom

In recovery period:

• You can recover the individual work (40%) with a grade equal to or higher than 5/10 to be able to average with the other grades
• In no case will it be possible to recover the group work (60%).

In accordance with current regulations, you can only opt for recovery, if the subject has been suspended. If the grade is Not Presented, you will not be eligible for recovery. 

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Government of Spain (2014). Nutrition and Physical Activity Strategy for the Prevention of Obesity (NAOS)

WHO (2010). Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health

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WHO. (2018). Global action plan on physical activity.

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Government of Catalonia. (2007). Exercise Prescription Guide for Health (PEFS)

Government of Catalonia. (2014). Physical Activity, Sport and Health Plan (PAFES)