Master in Education for Health

Course Objectives

The aim of this SC is to promote the construction and development of knowledge, practices and attitudes
in the field of Health Education , aimed at training qualified professionals for a qualified and informed
intervention in the various contexts in which they exercise / can exercise their action (business, schools,
nursery schools, kindergartens, nursing homes, day centers, social support institutions to vulnerable
populations, educational centers, prisons, health centers, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, etc.).

Access Conditions

The following can apply for access to the study cycle leading to a master’s degree in Health Education:
a) Holders of a bachelor’s degree or legal equivalent in the areas of education, health sciences, related areas or others considered relevant;
b) Holders of a foreign higher academic degree awarded following a 1st cycle of studies in the areas of education, health sciences, related areas or others considered relevant, organized in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process by an acceding State to this Process;
c) Holders of a foreign higher academic degree that is recognized as meeting the objectives of the degree by the scientific technical council of ESTeSC;
d) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum, which is recognized as attesting the ability to carry out this cycle of studies by the scientific technical council of ESTeSC.

Professional Outlets

Learning Language

Portuguese Language

Learning Objectives

i) To develop and deepen knowledge in the field of Education for Health;
ii) Apply knowledge, and contribute to solving problems in new situations in wide multidisciplinary
situations;
iii) To build a base of development and / or original application of knowledge and skills in the field of
intervention, linking the development of quality practices by adopting a critical and investigative analysis
on attitude insights and relevant research;
iv) Integrate knowledge, handle complex issues, develop solutions and make judgments on limited or
incomplete information situations, including reflections on the implications and ethical and social
responsibilities that result from those solutions and those judgments or conditional;
v) To develop the ability to communicate the conclusions, the knowledge and reasoning that underlie them,
the monitors, the experts, not specialists, in a clear and unambiguous;
vi) develop skills that allow for learning throughout life, in a way self-oriented or autonomous.
The degree of achievement of these goals will be evaluated in the various course CU.

Access to Superior Studies

The master degree allows the application to postgraduate studies.

Course Coordinators

Trocum Comum

Curricular Year: 1
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Intervention Strategies in Health Education 40007732 6 1st S
Management of Stress, Behavior and Health 40007721 6 1st S
Promotion and Environmental Citizenship 40007743 6 1st S
Research and Investigation Methodologies 40007844 6 1st S
Corporality and Health 40007856 6 2nd S
Health Promotion in the Workplace 40007779 6 2nd S
Health Public Policy an Health Policy 40007867 6 2nd S
Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life 40007768 6 2nd S
Sexuality, Helth, Culture and Media 40007757 6 2nd S
Addiction and Society
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Addiction and Society 40007796 6 1st S
Differentiated Education and Health
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Differentiated Education and Health 40007800 6 1st S
Expressive Therapies
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Expressive Therapies 40007811 6 1st S
Gerontology and Health
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Gerontology and Health 40007785 6 1st S
Health, Sport and Leisure
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Health, Sport and Leisure 40007822 6 1st S

Curricular Year: 2
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Dissertation/Project Work/Internship I 41003739 18 1st S
Seminar 40007878 6 1st S
Dissertation/Project Work/Internship II 41003745 30 2nd S
Addiction and Society
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Addiction and Society 41005025 6 1st S
Differentiated Education and Health
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Differentiated Education and Health 41005036 6 1st S
Expressive Therapies
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Expressive Therapies 41005064 6 1st S
Gerontology and Health
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Gerontology and Health 41005047 6 1st S
Health, Sport and Leisure
Curricular Unit Code ECTS Period
Health, Sport and Leisure 41005053 6 1st S