Description: Projects that, from different theoretical and conceptual perspectives, address health problems and the social processes that determine them in metropolises. Processes such as migration, homelessness, transformations in the world of work, urban environment, sexual and reproductive behaviors, discrimination, poverty, social exclusion, mental health, and others are analyzed with reference to their repercussions on the health of different social groups living in the metropolis and the social responses to these problems within the scope of health policy.

Involved Faculty: Cássio Silveira / José Tarcísio Penteado Buschinelli / Nivaldo Carneiro Junior / Rita de Cássia Barradas Barata / Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras / Renata Guedes Mourão Macedo / Karina Barros Calife Batista / Marta Campagnoni Andrade

Description: Projects focused on the study of the population distribution of diseases (including communicable diseases, cardiovascular conditions, cancer, and mental disorders) and health problems (such as violence and accidents), their social determinants, and public health policies and programs aimed at control and prevention.

Involved Faculty: José Cássio de Moraes / Marco Aurélio Palazzi Sáfadi / Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras / Rita de Cássia Barradas Barata / Ana Paula França

Description: Analytical studies and evaluation of public policies, programs, and services within the scope of the SUS (Unified Health System); performance analysis in the management of public and private health service providers; identification and development of indicators and instruments for improving service quality; regionalization of the health system emphasizing the relationships between government spheres, between managers and providers, and between the SUS and the supplementary system; service organization modalities.

Involved Faculty: Ana Lígia Passos Meira / Danielle Bivanco de Lima / Nelson Ibañez / Nivaldo Carneiro Junior / Oziris Simões / Paulo Artur Malvasi / Karina Barros Calife Batista / Marta Campagnoni Andrade

Description: Projects that analyze different aspects of training, distribution, labor market, work processes, professional profiles and expectations, reasons for career choice, job satisfaction, turnover, and other related issues concerning health professionals.

Involved Faculty: Danielle Bivanco de Lima / Patrícia Martins Montanari/ Pollyana Oliveira Lira.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 3

Course Load: 36 hours

Syllabus: Discussion of concepts, theories, and methods related to the issue of causality that permeates all disciplines in the field of Public Health. Establishing relationships of determination or causality between situations, circumstances, or exposure or risk factors and their health outcomes constitutes an important part of the population thinking that characterizes the scientific field of public health.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 5

Course Load: 60 hours

Syllabus: The course aims to provide students with an understanding of theoretical-conceptual frameworks of the main Schools of Administration, as well as the theoretical models of Health Planning, contributing to the critical analysis of Health Management. From this perspective, central issues of the contemporary reality of the health sector in Brazilian society will be relevant in the discussions of the course content.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 4

Course Load: 48h

Syllabus: Basic content in inferential statistics, including concepts such as sample variation, central limit theorem, law of large numbers, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, association tests, correlation and regression, and non-parametric tests.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 5

Course Load: 60 hours

Syllabus: Living conditions, work, lifestyles, and health inequalities: conceptual foundations and data on the morbidity and mortality profile in capitalist social formations. The case of Brazil. Discussion on contributions from authors in the human and social sciences, public health, and authors who analyze the determinants of Brazilian reality from the colonial period to the present.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 5

Course Load: 60 hours

Syllabus: Interprofessional Education (IPE): concepts and definitions. New models of health education. Professional identity and shared learning. The 14 health professions and Health Work. Teamwork and Collaborative Practice (CP). CP in Primary Health Care: health comprehensiveness, interdisciplinarity, and professional-user intersubjectivity. Intersectorality.

Level: Academic Master's

Credits: 5

Course Load: 60 hours

Syllabus: The course aims to introduce epidemiological reasoning, presenting the fundamentals of the method, with an emphasis on descriptive epidemiology and notions of epidemiological surveillance. It aims to enable students to describe diseases and health-related conditions from an epidemiological perspective. The essential technical and methodological elements for its execution will be presented.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 5

Course Load: 60 hours

Syllabus: The objective of the activity is to deepen knowledge about the epidemiological method by discussing the main aspects related to study designs, measures of occurrence and association, validity, confounding and interaction, stratification and adjustment, interpretation, and communication of research results.

Level: Academic Master's/Doctorate

Credits: 3

Course Load: 36 hours

Syllabus: To provide students with an in-depth understanding of theoretical and methodological frameworks and debates on gender, sexuality, body, social markers of difference, and health. Gender: the trajectory of a concept. Gender, sexuality, and health. Intersectionality, social markers of difference, and health. Gender and coloniality.