Pós Graduação em Fisioterapia na Promoção de Saúde (Evening Classes)

This course is aimed at training students to:

• Understand the importance of a global Health

• Know the biological and physiological alterations throughout life

• Analyze and identify modifying and non-modifying factors in specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Select and justify the choice of different assessment instruments to evaluate and monitor interventions among specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Analyze and critically assess scientific evidence and its practical application to specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Plan and critically analyze health promotion programmes conducted among specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Demonstrate communication skills towards specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Demonstrate skills in behavioral changing strategies

• Prescribe physical exercise (based on the concepts of global postural reeducation and Pilates) to a specific population (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Demonstrate capacity to select technological facilitators and equipment for specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Be capable of using the international classification of functionality in specific populations (infants, adolescents, adults, women’s health and elderlies)

• Assess the elderly’s mental health

• Analyze the relationship between physical exercise and executive function in elderly patients.