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1st Specialization in Community Health Care Studies

 ECTS CreditsNumber of Hours (h/year)
115
Health determinants
115
215
440
23505
115
115
345
440
115
325
115
330
Health and social pathology by age bracket and environments of life: antenatal and perinatal period
110
Health and social pathology by age bracket and environments of life: early childhood
215
110
110
110
220
210
115
115

Sociology

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffDISCRY, Anne
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0020/1
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To acquire notions of sociology in direct relation with the professional practice: the cultural diversity within our society, the cultural dimension of behaviors, the dual society and poverty, the social inequalities faced with health, the social inequalities faced with the school,...

To nurture a reflection on social behaviors in order to better understand mechanisms that underlie our society.

Description

The cultural diversity within our society

For a better intercultural understanding

The social inequalities

The social inequalities faced with health

The social inequalities faced with the school

Bibliography

No main reference book; but a lot of book abstracts, articles, feature articles, ...

Teaching and Learning MethodsGroup seminars or workshops
Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Clinical teaching, placements

ECTS Credits23
Number of Hours (h/year)505
Teaching staffNOEL, Véronique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0021/1
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

Training courses:

To develop and specify one’s knowledge concerning:

  • Health determinants
  • Health promotion / health education (principles, methodology, projects...)
  • Legal context, framework, useful ressources, rule of the IGSC...

To apply the process in communty health care ans develop an approach of identification of the problems and/or health needs.

To develop a know-how in the community health actions

Educational visits:

To approach the work environment and the unknown organizations by means of the trainings

Complete the course of management of the community health services

To meet professional people

Description

 505 hours in:

  • Structures where programmes of prevention and/or education for health are developed and/or implemented
  • Structures taking in charge the rehabilitation of people whose bad health is the cause or the result of a precarious or deteriorated social, familial or professional condition
Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsProject or fieldwork

Trainings in real situation under the supervision of a teacher from the High School and/or a training responsible in the institution welcoming the student

Written reports linked to the activities of professional integretion.

Assessment MethodsProjects or practical work
Placements
Continuous assessment

reports

NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Seminars

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)10
Teaching staffCOUPIENNE, Valérie
NOEL, Véronique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0022/1
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives
  • Apply the theoretical concepts discussed in various courses (including project methodology).
  • Practice to work collaboratively with other students (organization, partnership, negotiation).
  • Identify resources departments.
  • Develop a partnership with one or more services resources.
  • Develop individual and collective reflection with respect to certain ethical issues related to services or problems encountered.
  • Develop individual and collective reflection in relation to the development of the project and operation of the group. Take a step back from its practice.
  • Speaking before a group (oral presentation before a jury, conducting visual ...)
Description

As part of the specialization in Community Health, the seminar is a group effort. It is to co-construct a project with his colleagues, working in partnership with resource agencies. It will be developed following the steps of the project methodology.

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsGroup seminars or workshops
Project or fieldwork
Assessment MethodsProjects or practical work
NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Health and social pathology by age bracket and environments of life: health at work

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)10
Teaching staffDujardin, Marc
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0011/1
Prerequisite

None.

Aims and Objectives

To examine laws and thinking’s practice

Description

Regulations :

· General Health and Safety Regulation

· Codex’s study : employer and worker’s duty

· Codex on well-being at work’s study

· Special situations

Occupational diseases’s study

Bibliography

R G P T = Règlement général de protection du travail

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Health and social pathology by age bracket and environments of life: mental health

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)10
Teaching staffFRANCOIS, Christine
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0012/1
Prerequisite

Course of psychology and relation of assistance of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year IG

Aims and Objectives

Opening on to the knowledge of the world of the ambulatory mental health and the work of network

Description

Definition of mental health

The resources of ambulatory mental health

The psycho-medico-social network

The systemic and family approach

Bibliography

Recherches sur internet, bibliographie sur l’approche systémique en fonction des intérêts des étudiants.

Micha P., Asili G., L’approche contextuelle, Ed. Essentialis

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

visit of an institution

Assessment MethodsOral examinations

Each student will make a talk in front of the class: he will choose a part of the course an detail it

NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Public health, physical and mental handicaps

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)20
Teaching staffFILEE, Dominique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0013/1
Prerequisite

Course of the 3rd year Economy to health and Education by health

Aims and Objectives

To take part in the promotion of individual family and groups health

Description

Competences as regards health: federal, community and regional. System of medical information

  • Objectives
  • Qualities of a system of health information
  • Tool of health information
  • Basic health statistic
  • Registers, investigations
  • Observatories and local network
  • Circuits of the statistical bulletins of birth and death
  • Diseases with a compulsory declaration (example: epidemic of the AIDS, ISPLP

Food risks

  • Food errors
  • Deteriorations and falsifications: legislative aspect for the protection of the DA·
  • Food additives
  • Chemical contaminants and naturally toxic food

General inspection of Pharmacy

  • Missions of general inspection of pharmacy
  • Inspection of the dispensaries and the veterinary secton
  • Inspection of pharmaceutical industry and the medicine· the National center of Pharmacovigilance
  • Controls of narcotics, psychotropics and precursories

The institute of veterinary expert evaluation

  • Missions.
  • Expert evaluation.
Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Statistics

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffRENARD, Xavier
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0014/1
Prerequisite

Basic manipulations on computer.

Aims and Objectives

Introduction to theory of probability and to basic methods of statistical analysis, mainly in medical sciences.

 

Description

Descriptive statistics : mean, mode, median, variance, standard deviation, ...

Normal distribution caracteristics.

Khi square test.

 

 

 

Bibliography

WONNACOTT T., et WONNACOT R., Statistique, Paris, Economica, 1998.

D’HAINAUT, Louis. Concepts et méthodes de la statistique, Labor, Bruxelles et Nathan, Paris, 1975.

MURRAY R. SPIEGEL, Probabilités et Statistique, cours et problèmes, Série Schaum, McGraw-Hill, New-York, 1981.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials

application exercises with correction and discussion

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
Continuous assessment

practical examinations: application exercises to be solved

NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Political and social economy

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffTOUSSAINT, Martine
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0015/1
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To clarify and illustrate economic phenomena and mechanisms.

To resort to the economic argument and the scientific step in the economic reflection. To explain general economic activity while referring to the current macroeconomic aggregates.

To locate social economy ( and the companies belonging to this sector) in the total economic context.

To take an active part in the creation and the management of a non-profit association.

To explain accountancy like management tool and information system.

To analyse the information provided by the accountancy through the study of the two states of synthesis: the assessment and the income statement.

Description

The market economy, the economic activity.

The three approaches of the national accounting.

The social economy. The government’s role. Association.

Analyse countable information.

Bibliography

ANTOINE Joseph, Cour programmé de comptabilité avec tests et leur corrigé, De Boeck, Bruxelles, 1994

BROQUET Hervé, Vocabulaire de l'économie en Belgique, Éditions Vie Ouvrière, Bruxelles, 1996

De WASSEIGE Yves, Les mécanismes de l'économie politique : Laisser faire ou volontarisme, Éditions Vie Ouvrière, Bruxelles, 1994

JACQUEMIN Alexis, TULKENS Henry, Fondements d'économie politique, Éditions Universitaires, De Boeck Université, Bruxelles, 1989

WAUTHY Émile, CIGLIA Jean, DUCHESNE Paulin, Principes d’économie politique, Éditions Érasme, Namur, 1993

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Human geography

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffLHOEST, Geoffray
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0016/1
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To show that the evolution of the population can be influenced by the standard of living and the cultural environment.

Description

Demography:

  • All natural and migratory movements of the population
  • Evolution of the population
  • Analysis of the population (pyramids, triangular graphic)
  • Analysis of the working population (evolution of the sectors, world distribution)

Each chapter is illustrated as far as possible by examples found in practice

Ageing of the population according to the geographical position

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials

interactive talks

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
Projects or practical work
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Social legislation

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)45
Teaching staffCLAESSENS, Véronique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0017/1
Prerequisite

Lectures of previous years.

Aims and Objectives

Understanding the legal context providing the obligations of the job.

Description
  1. Civil and criminal liability.
  2. professionnal secrecy.
  3. Social security of the worker.
  4. Social security of the independent.
  5. Mother and child protection.
  6. Social assistance.
  7. Youth protection.
  8. The handicapped person.
  9. Filiation.Legal capacity and incapacity.
Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials
Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Psychology of the groups

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffDUMOULIN, Françoise
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0018/1
Prerequisite

The course of social psychology

Aims and Objectives

To sensitise the student to the world of poverty, to show its mechanisms in order to develop a better comprehension of the world of disadvantaged people and to avoid the attitudes of rejection

To propose attitudes allowing the underprivileged people to manage to get out of fatalism and misery and allowing to do a work of prevention on the level of the children.

Description

The Fourth World: description of the environment

Psychology of children of the Fourth World

Development of the children of the Fourth World

To be a parent in the Fourth World

Attitudes as regards the body and health in the Fourth World

Bibliography

BURGUES M-H., Il a grandi tous les jours, édition ATD quart – monde.

RIBEAUD M.C., Les enfants des exclus, Stock.

RIBEAUD M.C., La maternité dans le milieu sous – prolétaire, Stock, 1977.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials

Interactive talks – Reading of texts

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Social psychology

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffEISCHEN, Monique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0019/1
Prerequisite

Course of 3rd year

Aims and Objectives

To look further into the knowledge acquired on the development of the child within his family, emphasizing the fact that the family is the melting pot of social relations

Description

From 0 to 6 years: stages of development ( oral – anal – genital/Oedipe) in order to make connection with characteristics of the affective and love future life ( discussions based on illustrator reading).

Latency period/ puberty –adolescence: specific disorders of adolescence; sense of the crisis of the adolescence (discussions based on illustrator reading).

Basic notion relating to the function of family as system:

  • Familial history, familial interactions: introduction to the social (or no) integration, to choosed roles – or often repeated – in relational dynamic, to stands in various systems : couple, family and society in the broad sense.
  • Numerous illustrator situations

Ill-treatment ( with illustrator situations, discussions)

Introduction to different structures of personnality: neurotic structure, psychotic structure...based on situations met in training courses.

The quarter-world: analysis and infant’s evolution in underprivileged surroundings ( with illustrator situations and reading)

Bibliography

BADINTER Elisabeth, L’Amour en plus, Flammarion, 1981.

CARDINAL Marie, Les mots pour le dire, Poche.

CORNEAU Guy, N’y a-t-il pas d’amour heureux ? Coll. « Réponses », Laffont, 1997.

CRIUILLE Albert, Parents maltraitants, Enfants meurtris, ESF éditeurs, 2ème édition, 1991.

DACOS-BURGUES Marie-Hélène, LENTIN Louise et Germaine, et les équipes science et service de Liège, Il a grandi tous les jours…, édition science et service igloos, n° 103-104.

JAMOULLE Pascale, La débrouille des familles, Ed. De Boeck, OXALIS, 2002.

NAPIER Augustus et WITHAKER Carl, Le creuset familial, Laffont, 1978.

OLIVIER Christiane, Les enfants de Jocaste, Ed. Denoël, 1980 ; Peut-on être une bonne mère ?, Fayard, 2000 ; Quand l’amour ne rime plus avec toujours, Ed. Albin-Mivhel, 2004.

RIBEAUD Marie-Catherine et les équipes science et service, Les enfants des exclus, Lutter-Stock 2, 1976.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Interactive talks – Reading of books

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Analysis and management of the structures of Community health and methodologies of interventions: organization of the system of care and services

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)25
Teaching staffCOUPIENNE, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0001/1
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

Acquire the prerequisites for community health courses.

Understand the network of organizations working in the field of community health (legal framework, funding, missions, public, social worker's role, ethical)

Understand the division of powers between public health institutional levels in Belgium.

Description
  • The distribution of powers of public health in Belgium.
  • The social and family networks.
  • Access to education.
  • Access to employment and socio-professional
  • Access to housing.
  • Access to leisure and socio-cultural activities.
  • City of Life and Environment.
  • Lifestyles.
Bibliography

Ministère de la Communauté française. Coordination de l'aide aux victimes de maltraitance. L'aide aux enfants victimes de maltriatance.Guide à l'usage des intervenants auprès des enfants et des adolescents. Deuxième édition, Bruxelles, 2002.

Optimisation des synergies et des collaborations entre les centres de coordination de services et soins à domicile et les institutions de soins. Etude réalisée pour la Fédération des CSD. Les cahiers de la santé et de la Commission Communautaire Française. N°9, Bruxelles, 1998.

Prévenir les maltraitances. Coordination de l'aide aux victimes de maltraitance. Secrétariat Général. Ministère de la Communauté française, 2002.

Décrets fixant les missions des services.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials
Project or fieldwork

pedagogic visits.

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
Projects or practical work

group’s work

NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Analysis and management of the structures of Community health and methodologies of interventions:individual, of group and community methodology

ECTS Credits4
Number of Hours (h/year)40
Teaching staffCOUPIENNE, Valérie
EISCHEN, Monique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0002/1
Prerequisite

Helping relationship, psychology, deontology and ethics courses.

Aims and Objectives
  • Acquire the theoretical and practical methods of intervention in case work, group and community work.
  • Analyze the situation of persons met by different approaches.
  • Develop a reflection on the meaning of his work and the ethical issues of it.
  • Be aware of your own judgments and a reflection on what this means in relation to the user.
  • Take a step back from his personal experiences.
  • Develop a reflection on their attitudes and practice.
Description
  • Professional qualifications and scope of community health nurses.
  • The individual and family approach: the development of an intervention project.
  • Active listening and interviewing assistance.
  • Prepare, facilitate and monitor a meeting.
  • Prepare and conduct a presentation in front of a group.
  • The community approach: the approach in community health and community diagnosis.
  • Case studies: Theoretical approach of the "method of cases" and case analysis in groups from the situations experienced by students in training.
Bibliography

MUCCHIELLI R. L'entretien de face à face dans la relation d'aide. Collection formation permanente en sciences humaines. ESF. Paris, 1991.

SALOME J. Relation d'aide et formation à l'entretien. Presses universitaires de Lille. Lille, 1993.

LANGLOIS G, PREVOST M, et al.  Action communautaire en santé : un observatoire international des pratiques. 2004-2008 Belgique - France - Espagne. Secrétariat Européen des Pratiques de Santé Communautaires; Fédération des Maisons Médicales; Institut Renaudot, 2009. 67 p.

CHAMBON M, PEROUZE H. Conduire un projet dans les services. Chronique sociale, Lyon: 2003.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Developing, piloting, evaluation of health promotion programs

ECTS Credits4
Number of Hours (h/year)40
Teaching staffCOUPIENNE, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0003/1
Prerequisite

Course of health education 2nd BSI and 3rd BSI

Aims and Objectives
  • Discover and acquire the characteristics of an approach in health promotion.
  • Develop a project to promote health using a rigorous and based on partnerships with stakeholders.
  • Knowing the area of health promotion in the French Community and the different services useful resource for professionals (in training, documentation or methodological support)
  • Acquire analytical criteria campaigns and tools to promote health.
  • Experiment with some ways of working with animation health.
Description
  • Models of health
  • The concepts related to health promotion
  • The historical landmarks
  • The project methodology
  • Communication and health promotion
  • Decree of 07/14/1997 on the organization of health promotion
Bibliography

BONTEMPS R., CHERBONNIER A., MOUCHET P., TREFOIS P., Communication et promotion de la santé. Aspects théoriques, méthodologiques et pratiques. Question Santé, Bruxelles, 1998.

LAURE F., Le guide des techniques d’animation. Méthodes et outils pour réussir vos animations, Dunod, Paris, 2000.

LUFIN A., Les représentations de santé des jeunes, Service Education pour la santé, Croix-Rouge de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1995.

NOCK F., Petit guide de l’évaluation en promotion de la santé, Département santé Publique de la Fédération Nationale de la Mutualité française, Paris 2000.

 

Ministère de la communauté française. Direction Générale de la Santé. Programme Quinquennal et législation de promotion de la santé de la communauté française 1998-2003. Bruxelles, 1998.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Deontology and ethics

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffCOUPIENNE, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0004/1
Prerequisite

Deontology 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Graduate Nurse.

Aims and Objectives
  • Give students, through exchange and discussion, the possibility of an open mind and a questioning in relation to ethical issues related to his profession. 
  • Develop an ability to step back from his practice.
Description
  • Theoretical review
  • The search for ethical discernment
  • The ethical guidelines
  • The different dimensions of ethical questioning
Bibliography

BOLLY C, GRANDJEAN V. L’éthique en chemin. Démarche et créativité pour les soignants. Neufchateau : Weyrich Edition ; 2004.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops
Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Administrative organization and work management

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffCOUPIENNE, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0005/1
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

To acquire administrative competences necessary in the community health services.

Provide tracks for job hunting.

Description
  • Writing business mail.
  • Writing a professional report.
  • Report of the meetings (and recalls on the management of the meetings)
  • The medical and social survey individual and / or family.
  • Using the phone in a professional situation.
  • The Job Search.
Bibliography

LE BRAS F., La lettre de candidature : un élément clé dans la course à l’emploi. Marabout, 1994.

MOYSON R., Gérer son temps et son stress. Pour un nouvel humanisme. Ed. De Boeck Université, Bruxelles, 1998.

MUCCHIELLI R., La conduite des réunions. Coll. Formation permanente en sciences humaines. ESF, Paris 1992.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Epidemiology

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffFILEE, Dominique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0007/1
Prerequisite

Course of health economy of the 3rd year IG

Aims and Objectives
Description

Epidemiology : Definition· Objectives

Main lines of epidemiology:

  • Descriptive epidemiology
  • Analytic epidemiology
  • The epidemiology of intervention and evaluation

Functions of epidemiology :

  • Systematic medical monitoring
  • Measurement of the importance of a health problem
  • Description of groups at risk
  • Evaluation in health

Measurements in epidemiology

  • Rate of prevalence
  • Rate of incidence
  • Rate of lethality
  • Rate of mortality
  • Standardization (direct – indirect)

Indicators of health :

  • Quality standards of health indicators
  • Categories of health indicators

Methods of investigation with with an explicative aim·

  • Investigation account - No account
  • Investigation witness case
  • Causality and epidemiology

Notion of risk and its utilisation

  • Relative risk
  • Attribuable risk
  • Odds ratio

Detection

  • Selection criteria of the diseases to be detected
  • Validity and reliability
  • Sensitivity and specificity
  • Predictive value
Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

practical activity

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Health and social pathology by age bracket and environments of life: school health

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)10
Teaching staffDEFROIDMONT, Maryse
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_STECOM0010/1
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To be able to become integrated in a service of school medicine at the level of functioning and of its missions.

Description

The medical supervision in the various types of teaching:

  • The I.M.S.: missions, organization, personnel, subsidies, the project of fusion
  • The P.M.S.
  • Prevention and detection of deficiencies: sensory, staturo-ponderal, mental...

Transmissible diseases and school eviction:

  • Consequences of deficiencies on the school training
  • Special teaching: integration of the handicapped.
  • School “dropping out”
  • Health behaviours of teenagers and the young people: risk factors
  • Education for health at the school: I.M.S., P.M.S., R.E.E.S., Red Cross

Role and influence on health and the school training of:

  • Corporal hygiene
  • The school rhythms
  • Sleep
  • Food
  • School work at home
  • Cultural activities and of relaxation: TV

School accidents·

  • Medical supervision of the students subjected to a risk of professional type
  • School and violence
  • School and toxicomanie·
  • School and citizenship

Experiment of the ZEP

Bibliography

Pédiatrie manuel illustré, De Boeck

Education pour la santé, De Boeck

Diététique infantile, Masson

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Interactive talks

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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