Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2025-26
This subject falls within the scope of applied nutrition. Specifically, it is based on applying knowledge of community health and nutrition to the community or population groups, always taking the community into account, through community participation.
Therefore, it is not a subject aimed at working with individuals but rather with the community, although individual work can also be done at times.
Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26
Specific Competences (CE)
- E12 : Communicate effectively, know how to use information and communication technologies, especially those associated with nutrition and habits.
- E13 : Understand, evaluate critically and know how to use sources of information related to nutrition, diet, lifestyles and health care factors.
- E14 : Capacity to write reports and complete records involved in the professional work of a Dietetist-Nutritionist.
- E15 : Understand the essential elements of the profession of a Dietetist-Nutritionist and carry out one's profession respecting other health care professionals.
- E29 : Develop the profession from a patient/user/client focused approach.
Specific transversal competences of the degree course :>>Foreign language proficiency
- CT1 : Read and understand texts in a foreign language.
Specific transversal competences of the degree course :>>IT and information competences
- CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
Specific transversal competences of the degree course:>>Oral and written communication competences
- CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.
General Competences of the Degree Course (CG):>>Public health and community nutrition module
- 52 : Understand national and international health care systems, as well as health care policies.
- 53 : Participate in the analysis, planning, intervention and evaluation of epidemiological studies and diet and nutrition intervention programmes in different areas
- 54 : Design and carry out nutritional assessments to identify the diet and nutrition needs of the population, as well as identifying the determining factors of nutritional health.
- 55 : Design, intervene in and implement diet-nutrition education and diet-nutrition training programmes.
- 56 : Collaborate with planning diet-nutrition policies for dietary-nutritional education of the general public.
- 57 : Acquire the capacity to take part in promotion, prevention and protection programmes focused on the community and public health.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26
1. Describe the importance of community nutrition.
2. Describe the components of the community nutrition paradigm for planning community programs and services, and apply skills to prevent and identify nutritional problems in population groups and communities.
3. Understand techniques for assessing nutritional status in populations and their application in fieldwork, interpreting results, and analyzing operational conclusions.
4. Acquire training in the design of health promotion and disease prevention programs through food and nutrition.
5. Identify and describe resources and intervention strategies targeting community nutrition issues.
6. Identify and describe the community participation process.
7. Acquire training and apply skills to interventions with population groups and communities, analyzing strategic alternatives for action.
8. Understand the application of health monitoring programs from a community perspective and strategies for nutritional quality control and food safety.
9. Acquire training and applied skills for the evaluation of health interventions and programs aimed at improving nutritional status.
General
Code:
27525
Lecturer responsible:
Martínez Milán, Maria Asunción
Credits ECTS:
6,00
Theoretical credits:
2,00
Practical credits:
0,40
Distance-base hours:
3,60
Departments involved
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Dept:
COMMUNITY NURSING, PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Area: NURSING
Theoretical credits: 2
Practical credits: 0,4
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
Study programmes where this course is taught
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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
Course type: COMPULSORY (Year: 3)
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DEGREE IN HUMAN NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Course type: COMPULSORY (Year: 3)