The Program
The Graduate Program in Collective Health (PPGSCol) - Professional Master's Degree, at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (Unesc) is aimed at professionals and managers with higher education degrees who work or intend to work in the area of Health.
This program deepens and mobilizes reflective processes in the way health professionals work, through care management, so that positive movements in defense of the SUS and possible ways of making the system happen based on its assumptions can be promoted at regional and state level.
Among PPGSCol's functions is the promotion and mediation of meetings that enable professionals and managers in the macro-region to rethink their practices, in order to give new meaning to training processes in health.
It aims to mobilize professionals engaged with the SUS in the teaching-learning process in health, in a critical and involved way, through the use of permanent education in health as a working tool that produces light, light-hard and hard technologies, using scientific production as a source of evidence.
Thus, the PPGSCol is an important space for both instrumentalization and experimentation/construction of products and research into new forms of relationship among healthcare professionals and users, among healthcare professionals and managers, and among healthcare professionals themselves, in order to promote changes in their workplaces, recognizing primary care as the coordinator of the care network and inducer of a health-promoting model, which takes into account health responsibility through multiprofessional and intersectoral action.
Mission +
Our mission is to qualify professionals and managers who are committed to collective health through the management of services and care, epidemiology, health promotion and education, transforming healthcare practice scenarios from the perspective of comprehensive care. +
Objective +
Our objective is to train professionals and managers in the health area for the qualification and innovation of health management, focusing on care and education, relying on research skills and critical analysis in the themes of applied epidemiology, health promotion, education and work management. Also, we aim to train health professionals and managers of health networks and services so that they are able to:
Identify the best evidence for decision-making in health;
Use epidemiological methods to describe and analyze collective health situations, generate information that enables the formulation of intervention proposals in health services;
Evaluate and develop new technologies for health promotion from the perspective of comprehensive care and fostering autonomy;
Develop and implement health education programs aimed at transforming work processes and improving management quality;
Produce knowledge through research to support the development of products and interventions for the qualification of service networks;
Research Lines
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Epidemiology applied in health services
Education and management of health work
Health Promotion and Comprehensive Care
Epidemiology applied in health services
Epidemiological studies and research related to chronic non-communicable diseases, ageing, psychiatric disorders, workers' health and women's health. Health situation analysis. Information systems and health technology assessment. The use of epidemiological tools for decision-making in health management and assistance, inseparable dimensions of organizational processes and health practices, care and the organization of projects and programs in health care and surveillance networks. Scientific evidence studies and their application in services.
Education and management of health work
Research the relationships established between education and the management of health services, focusing on continuing health education, understanding it as a pedagogical and work management tool. It studies teaching-learning processes based on practice scenarios and health policies, seeking the interrelationship between formal education and health work spaces, based on the country's health system. It includes studies relating to health care networks, work processes and health work, management and planning of work and health services, health education, education at work, health education and management technologies, and evaluation of health services and management.
Health Promotion and Comprehensive Care
Studies and researches indicators and alternatives to consolidate Health Promotion and Comprehensive Care in different contexts and stages of life. Its objects of attention are strategies and determinants of healthy living with an emphasis on an active lifestyle, rational use of medicines, worker health, violence and inequalities aimed at promoting health and consolidating the comprehensiveness of individual care and collective.
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