Post-graduate course in Public Health Nursing

The Postgraduate Course in Public Health Nursing reflects the concern with health problems, health systems and the social contexts where people live and work, focusing on the scientific basis for practice in the area of community health and public health. Thus, this course emphasizes the development of skills within the scope of health planning methods, epidemiology and biostatistics, promoting the interconnection of research and practice.

Learning outcomes

• To establish, based on health planning methodology, the assessment of a community’s health status;
• To contribute to the process of empowering groups and communities;
• To integrate the coordination of health programmes within the community and in achieving the objectives of the National Health Plan;
• To conduct and cooperate to the geo-demographic epidemiologic surveillance.