Master in Primary Health Care - Version 2

Master in Primary Health Care
NAME

Master in Primary Health Care

MODALITY

Onsite

PROPOSITION

$ 6500.00

GRADUATION MODALITY

Thesis

TITLE TO BE OBTAINED

Master in Primary Health Care

DURATION

2 Semesters

REGISTRATION

$ 500.00

START AND TERMINATION

03/2024 al 03/2025

RESOLUTION

RPC-SO-27-No.644-2021

PROGRAM VERSION

2

PHONE NUMBERS

4091000 - Ext. 735 - 731

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Primary health care orients its structure and function towards the values ​​of equity and social solidarity and the right of every human being to enjoy the maximum degree of health that can be achieved without distinction of ethnicity, religion, political ideology or economic condition. or social.

The University of Azuay with its Master's Degree in Primary Health Care will train high-level professionals who will contribute to the transformation of the local and country's health reality, by providing comprehensive health care to the individual, family and community, another important component of The master's degree is that the graduate will complement the primary care team.

Forms of payment and financing of the master's degree

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Luci Matailo Montenegro

Phone: 0992287881

lmatailo@uazuay.edu.ec

Graduate profile

 

  • Develop promotion, prevention, education and communication skills that allow you to improve the quality of health care in the geographical area in which you perform your duties.
  • It carries out the analysis of the determinants of health, proposes solutions adapted to the context in search of universal health with respect for human rights with observance of the "other".
  • Maintains a continuous relationship over time with the person and their family in the community using effective communication tools and shared decision-making.
  • Coordinate with other specialties the follow-up of those patients who need it.
  • Participate in multidisciplinary care teams that work in networks.
  • Prepares the situational analysis of community health, identification of health problems, prioritization of the same, prepares and executes the action plan.
  • Plans and executes research and intervention projects to modify the health reality of the population.
  • Evaluates and monitors executed projects.
  • Integra, collaborate actively in the achievement of common goals with their colleagues, organizations and the community.
  • Applies in his professional activity the teaching, research and management knowledge, which responds to the needs of the community, family and individual, according to his area of ​​interference.
  • He advises people and their families with a psychological and social approach during all stages of the individual and family life cycle.
  • Identifies, evaluates the health problems of the individual, the family and the community without distinction of sex, age, ethnicity, religion or gender orientation.
  • It proposes comprehensive approach strategies for health problems with a participatory, family, community, and intercultural approach.

 

MODULE CONTENT
FAMILY HEALTH FUNDAMENTALS Topic 1.1
* Primary Health Care.
* History.
* Statements Alma Ata, Ottawa.
* Concept and philosophical bases of family and community health.
* Functions and challenges of the family health team in PHC. Topic 1.2
* Health promotion and prevention.
* Definition.
* Risks evaluation.
* Risk management.
* Health promotion.
* Prevention: concept. Preventive approach, levels and strategies for prevention.
* Determinants of health. Topic 1.3
* MORE.
* Legal framework, conceptual framework, the comprehensive community and intercultural health care model, components of the comprehensive community and intercultural family health care model Topic 1.4
* Provision of health services.
* Organizational component of the national health system.
* Management component of the national health system.
* Financing component.
* Social impact results.
* Phases and tools for the implementation of the comprehensive community and intercultural family health care model at the first level of care.
FAMILY AND FAMILY HEALTH INSTRUMENTS Topic 2.1
* Family.
* Definition and historical evolution of the family.
* Types of family.
* Functions.
* Family as a social group and as a system, family structure, roles, norms, limits.
* Family Life Cycle. Topic 2.2
* General theory of the systems. Topic 2.3
* Basic instruments in primary care.
* Tools and instruments to assess family health.
* The observation.
* Test of perception of family functioning, FFSIL, family, Holmes scale.
* Genogram / familiogram, echo map circle diagram, spiral life cycle. Topic 2.4
* Salutogenesis.
* General principles Aaron Antonovsky
* Senses of coherence and general resources of resistance (RGR) -Health assets.
* Course of life.
* Origins and development.
* Basic principles.
* Theoretical methodological approach. Topic 2.5
* Comprehensive home visit.
* Characteristics.
* Importance.
* Profits.
RESEARCH Topic 3.1: Science and scientific research. 1.1 Science.
* Concept.
* Elements that comprise it, objectives. 1.2 Formation of scientific knowledge.
* Scientific research in health, methodology and scientific method. 1.3 Research functions and their types.
* Research in APS. 1.4 Critical reading of the medical literature. Unit 3.2: Biostatistics. 3.2.1 Descriptive Statistics.
* Definition and applications. 3.2.2 Statistical variables.
* Definition and classification.
* Variables classification scales.
* Class interval.
* Actual limits.
* Class mark.
* Class breadth. 3.2.3 Absolute, relative and cumulative frequency distributions. 3.2.4 Statistical Representation. 3.2.5 The statistical table or table. 3.2.6 Statistical graphics. 3.2.7 Summary measures for qualitative variables. 3.2.8 Ratio and index.
* Proportion and percentage.
* Rates. Its definition, calculation, uses and interpretation. 3.2.9 For quantitative variables:
* Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode.
* Measures of position: quartiles, deciles and percentiles. 3.2.10 Variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation.
* Its definition, calculation, uses and interpretation. Unit 3.3: Research instruments. 3.3.1 Design of research instruments.
* Design of data collection plan. 3.3.2 Search for scientific articles to support the research protocol. 3.3.3 Critical reading of scientific articles and creation of a reference base for the theoretical framework. 3.3.4 Construction of hypotheses and the diagnosis of family dynamics.
* Criticism of the evaluation of the functionality.
* Pilot validation of data collection instruments. 3.3.5 Unit of analysis and universe.
* Feasibility of field work.
* Delimitation of the study problem. 3.3.6 Time, place, person and characteristics of the problem. 3.3.7 Context of the problem. 3.3.8 Justification of the problem. Unit 3.4: Types of studies suitable for research. 3.4.1 Descriptive studies. 3.4.2 Cross-sectional studies. 3.4.3 Sample selection. Topic 3.5: Data collection and processing plan. 3.5.1 Data collection techniques and instruments. 3.5.2 Entry and systematization. 3.5.3 Database development. Topic 3.6: Statistical analysis. 3.6.1 Univariate statistical analysis: Measures of central tendency and dispersion. 3.6.2 Presentation of tables and graphs. 3.6.3 Association tests. 3.6.3 Significance tests. 3.6.4 Tables and graphs. Unit 3.7: Interpretation of statistical analysis. 3.7.1 Acceptance of hypotheses and / or fulfillment of objectives. 3.7. 2 Establishment of conclusions and recommendations in logical order according to results. Topic 3.8: Preparation and presentation of the draft research protocol. 3.8.1 Report model and contents. 3.8.2 Manual of style: MLA. 3.8.3 Editing aspects. 3.8.4 Support. Topic 3.9: Review and final correction of the research protocol. 3.9.1 Review of consistency. 3.9.2 Style review. 3.9.3 Review of the bibliography Topic 3.10: Preparation of the field work. 3.10.1 Review of the information protocol. 3.10.2 Design and validation of information gathering instruments. 3.10.3 Design of a plan for collecting information in the field.
FAMILY IN FORMATION Unit 4.1: Family life cycle. 4.1.2 Family in formation. 4.1.2 Structure and function Topic 4.2: Family crisis. 4.2.1 Family crisis: classical theoretical model. 4.2.2 Functional structure of the family in crisis. 4.2.3 Crises in the life course. Unit 4.3: Advance guidelines and healthy styles according to clinical practice. 4.3.1 Healthy lifestyles in the couple in training. 4.3.2 Contraception counseling. 4.3.3 Nutritional consultation-Family gardens. Unit 4.4: Sexuality in the family in formation. 4.4.1 ITS risk behaviors. Unit 4.5: Pregnancy care. 4.5.1 Care, hygiene, food and nutrition in pregnancy. 4.5.2 Responsible paternity and maternity Topic 4.6: Puerperium. 4.6.1 Home visit in the puerperium. 4.6.2 Hygiene care and nutrition in the puerperium. Unit 4.7: Timely prevention of cancer. 4.7.1 Prevention of breast and uterine cancer in young women.
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN Unit 5.1: The arrival of the children. 5.1.2 Structural and functional characteristics. 5.1.3 Possible risks. Unit 5.2: Family crisis.
* Psychoeducation 5.2.1 Family crisis: at this stage of the cycle (sexuality). 5.2.2 Advance Guides. Unit 5.3: Healthy styles.
* Health Psychology.
* Childcare. 5.3.1 Hygiene and care during lactation. 5.3.2 Promotion of breastfeeding. 5.3.3 Childhood care. 5.3.4 Well-child check-up. 5.3.5 Consultation of the scholar. Unit 5.4: Growth and development.
* Developmental Psychology. 5.4.1 Childhood, puberty. 5.4.2 Anthropometric and developmental evaluation. Use of standardized tables. 5.4.3 Denver test. Unit 5.5: Disability. 5.5.1 The causes of disabilities and moral and cultural responses. 5.5.2 Children with social or cultural risk factors or handicaps. PSYCHOEDUCATION 5.5.3 Learning problems. 5.5.4 Management of the CIF.
* Community-based rehabilitation.
FAMILY WITH TEENAGERS Unit 6.1: Characterization of the family with adolescents. Unit 6.2: Sexual health in adolescents. Psychoeducation 6.2.1 Gender identity. 6.2.2 Healthy sexuality. 6.2.3 Risk behaviors. 6.2.4 Unwanted pregnancy. Unit 6.3: Problems of adolescents. 6.3.1 Evolutionary psychology and crisis. 6.3.2 Risk behaviors: Violence and its types. Addictions 6.3.3 Jorgas, urban and rural tribes, gangs. 6.3.4 Media and young people (Social networks). Unit 6.4: Health promotion. 6.4.1 Affectivity. 6.4.2 Use of free time. 6.4.3 Resilience in adolescents. 6.4.4 The rights of adolescents.
COMMUNITY WORK AND HEALTH Unit 7.1: Community. 7.1.1 Community work instruments. 7.1.2 Participatory community diagnosis. 7.1.3 Comprehensive Health Situation Analysis (ASIS). Unit 7.2: Health Fairs. 7.2.1 Political, social and cultural objectives. 7.2.2 Participatory health promotion strategy. 7.2.3 Contents, activities and organization. 7.2.4 Evaluation of results and impact on community life. 7.2.5 Foundations for the design of Local Health Plans. 7.2.6 Community and family projects. Topic 7.3: Development of healthy spaces as a primary PHC strategy. 7.3.1 Theoretical model of healthy spaces. 7.3.2 Operational definitions.
* Types.
* Strategies. 7.3.3 Requirements and levels.
* Organization and action. Unit 7.4: Community groups for health. 7.4.1 Organization of Mutual Help Groups (GAM). 7.4.2 Women's groups. 7.4.3 Community health promoters. Unit 7.5 Educational Resources and Materials.
* By life cycles and special groups (in people with disabilities, LGBTI, PPL).
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT Unit 8.1: Natural history of the disease. Unit 8.2: Health problems.
* Illness and suffering. Unit 8.3: Health epidemiology. 8.3.1 Community epidemiology.
* Definition and components. 8.3.2 Structure of the population.
* Population pyramid.
* Population dynamics: Life expectancy at birth.
* Migrations. Unit 8.4: Local organization of help networks. 8.4.1 Protection for violated women and children. Topic 8.5: Prevention tools and therapeutic approach in cases of violence (Intervention in crisis).
* Protocol for the Intervention of Victims of Violence. 8.5.1 Organization of networks and forms of reference. Topic 8.6 Design and implementation of Local Health Plans with community participation. 8.6.1 Participatory planning models.
*POA.
* Monitoring and evaluation system. 8.6.2 Design and monitoring of Local Health Plans aimed at: Healthy families, healthy homes.
* Healthy schools.
* Healthy communities. Topic 8.7: Writing a scientific article based on the report of the degree work. 8.7.1 General approach.
* How to write the title, abstract and introduction. 8.5.3.2 Writing a scientific article from the report of the degree work. 8.5.3.3 How to write the materials and methods section. 8.5.3.4 How to write the results section. 8.5.3.5 How to write the discussion and conclusions.
FAMILY IN CONTRACTION Unit 9.1: Adults.
* Structural and functional changes.
* The new dynamics.
* Epidemiology of prevalent health problems in the environment. Unit 9.2: The characteristics of adulthood: physical, psychological and social.
* Gender relations.
* Sexuality in this stage of the life cycle (Guide to sexual and reproductive health).
* Healthy lifestyles. Unit 9.3: Genesis and types of crisis in this stage of the life cycle. -Violence: general concepts, types, prevention and management.
* Family breakdown: separation and divorce, migration. Unit 9.4: Participatory community action.
* Substance use and community action.
* Community work, rehabilitation and social reintegration. Topic 9.5: Occupational and occupational health: Occupational risk.
* Polluting factors in work areas.
* Ergonomics.
* Biosafety.
* Health certificates (rest).
FAMILY IN EMPTY NEST Topic 10.1: Characterization of the "empty nest": Structural and functional changes. Unit 10.2: The characteristics of the elderly. 10.2.1 Physical, psychological and social characteristics of the elderly. 10.2.2 Gender relations. Topic 10.3: Crisis and advance guidelines. 10.3.1 Retirement and retirement. 10.3.2 Impacts and adaptations. 10.3.3 Relationships with children. 10.3.4 Free time. 10.3.5 Healthy lifestyles. Topic 10.4: Needs of the elderly in terminal phase: Biological, psychological, spiritual.
* First aid in families with the elderly. Topic 10.5: Mental health in the elderly: 10.5.1 Preventive practices at the family and community level. 10.5.2 Frailty 10.5.4 Abandonment and abuse. Unit 10.6: Caregiver syndrome. Topic 10.7: Duels.
* Psychoeducation 10.7.1 Normal grief.
* Phases of the duel.
* Factors related to grief. 10.7.2 Mortality and morbidity during grief. 10.7.3 Intervention in pathological grief.
FAMILY IN ELDERLY Topic 11.1: Loneliness. 11.1.1 Living alone. 11.1.2 Role of the community. 11.1.3 Coping strategies. Topic 11.2: Poverty. 11.2.1 Disability in the elderly. 11.2.2 Prevention and rehabilitation of disabilities. 11.2.3 Legal framework for the elderly and disability. 11.2.4 Law for the protection of the elderly. 11.2.5 State and community resources. 11.2.6 Inclusive strategies in the elderly. 11.2.7 Discrimination. Topic 11.3: Occupational therapy in the geriatric patient. 11.3.1 Indications and objectives. 11.3.2 Areas of occupation programs. Topic 11.4: Rehabilitation care in geriatrics 11.4.1 Concept assessment and indications. 11.4.2 Therapeutic means and techniques. Topic 11.5: Feeding in the elderly. 11.5.1 Types of diets, nutritional needs according to frequent pathologies. Topic 11.6: Spirituality. 11.6.1 Concept. Spirituality and / or religiosity 11.6.2 Spiritual needs. 11.6.3 Spiritual Satisfiers. 11.6.4 Spiritual accompaniment. Topic 11.7: Palliative care.
* Death 11.7.1 Thinking about death. 11.7.2 Receive and give bad news. 11.7.3 Rites related to death. 11.7.4 Brief psychotherapy or behavior modification in Primary Health Care to address the therapeutic intervention adapted to brief sessions that is the most common in the public sphere.
* Clinical interview.
* Brief behavior modification tools.
BIOETHICS Topic 12.1: Introduction to Bioethics, 12.1.1 Difference between morals and ethics. 12.1.2 Ontology. 12.1.3 Principles of the Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
* Patients' rights 12.1.4 Human dignity Topic 12.2: Principleism (Beauchamp and Childress). 12.2.1 Autonomy. 12.2.2 Justice-Equity. 12.2.3 Charity. 12.2.4 Non-Maleficence. 12.2.5 Criticism of principlism.
* Clinical ethics 12.2.6 Ethics in the age of social networks. 12.2.7 Conflicts of interest. 12.2.8 Recognizing the “limits”. 12.2.9 Bioethics in the context of PHC. 12.2.10 The challenge of focusing medicine on the patient. 12.2.11 The challenge of caring for families and the psychosocial environment. 12.2.12 The challenge of health education. 12.2.13 The challenge of responsible use of resources. 12.2.14 Ethics as an impetus for the permanent improvement of the healthcare model. Unit 12.3: The ethics of conception and beginning of life. 12.3.1 Assisted reproduction and cloning. 12.3.2 Genetic counseling. 12.3.3 Genetic manipulation. 12.3.4 Caring for life, voluntary interruption of pregnancy. 12.3.5 The moral problem of abortion. Unit 12.4: Sexism, homophobia. 12.4.1 The right of patients belonging to LGBTI groups Topic 12.5: Informed consent. 12.5.1 The person with the inability to consent. 12.5.2 Organ donation. 12.5.3 Ethical referents of the research Topic 12.6: The end of life. 12.6.1 Medical decision making at this stage of life. 12.6.2 Elderly patient doctor relationship. 12.6.3 Ethical Connotations. Unit 12.7: Living will, legacy. 12.7.1 Law on wills, inheritance and inheritance and donations in Ecuador: special situations. Topic 12.8: Terminality. 12.8.1 Concept.
* Prognostic factors. 12.8.2 Termination criteria.
* Legacy. Unit 12.9: Attendance at the end of life. 12.9.1 Euthanasia. 12.9.2 Orthothanasia. 12.9.3 Distanasia. Topic 12.11: Bioethics Committees. 12.11.1 Research Committees. 12.11.2 Research involving human subjects. 12.11.3 Voluntary participation of research subjects. 12.11.4 The role of standards. 12.11.5 The social context of ethical standards. 12.11.6 Nuremberg Code. 12.11.7 Declaration of Helsinki.
DEGREE WORK Preparation of the degree work proposal according to the proposed lines of research.
Entry requirements

To enter the master's degree, it will be necessary to have a third-level degree, duly registered by the governing body of higher education public policy, and to comply with the admission process established in the program to which you are applying.

The proposed master's program is aimed at professionals with third-level bachelor's degrees in the specific field of health.

Applicants with profiles from other fields may be considered as long as the applicant demonstrates knowledge in the area of ​​knowledge of the program and is admitted by the admission panel.

Admission process

Applicants must register on the website of the Postgraduate Department www.uazuay.edu.ec/admisiones/postgrados, they must upload: passport size photo, third level degree title, identity card and updated CV.

Registration must be paid (50 USD) through the payment button with any credit card, or in the university treasury, or by deposit to the following accounts:

Pichincha Bank:
Current account No. 3186821004 - RUC: 0190131777001

Guayaquil Bank:
Current account No. 6447600 - RUC: 0190131777001

Produbanco:
Current account No. 02070000472 - RUC: 0190131777001

In the case of deposit, once payment has been made, a copy of the receipt must be sent to transfers@uazuay.edu.ec and posgrados@uazuay.edu.ec, indicating your personal data (ID number, full name, address and telephone number) and the program to which you are applying, for registration in the system.

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