THE PROGRAM
The PPGSC/FURB - Post-Graduate Program in Collective Health, Professional Master's level, is a Program in the Collective Health area of knowledge of CAPES, which involves an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to disease prevention and the promotion, protection and recovery of population health. It articulates disciplines of epidemiology, social and human sciences in health, and policy, planning and management of health systems and services. The PPGSC/FURB was recommended by CAPES and started its first class in 2013. Each year, 10 new positions are opened for professionals interested in and engaged with Collective Health, whether from higher education institutions or services involved in assistance, management, research, and teaching.
The PPGSC aims to respond to a demand for training professionals for Brazil's Unified Health System, at its various levels of operation (primary, secondary and tertiary care), and eventually supplementary health. We have contributed to the training of teachers in Collective Health at higher education institutions. The PPGSC aims to stimulate the development of technical, reflective and critical skills in order to induce transformations in the work processes carried out by health professionals and teams that improve management, teaching, scientific research, care and public policies related to the Unified Health System in the field of Collective Health. In this sense, our mission is to ‘contribute to improving individual and collective care in the Unified Health System, through the production of knowledge and the qualification of health professionals from the perspective of teaching-service-community integration’.
Main goal: to qualify professionals for teaching, research and health management with the capacity to develop scientific research and work in services in the area of Collective Health.
Area of interest
Public Policies, Epidemiology and Health Care.
MASTER'S DEGREE IN COLLECTIVE HEALTH
Duration: 2 years
Total courses hours: 570 hours
Number of vacancies: 10
Class period: Weekly, Fridays, mornings, afternoons and sometimes evenings
Courses local: FURB campus 3, Blumenau - Brazil

RESEARCH LINES
- Epidemiology
- Health Promotion and Integrality of Care
- Public Policies and Health Work Processes
REQUIRED COURSES - MASTER'S DEGREE
Health Systems and Care Models: comparative analysis - 30 hours/class
History, conceptual and legal bases, operational and technological characteristics of health systems. Comparison of the Brazilian system with others. Care Models with emphasis on Primary Health Care.
General Epidemiology - 30 hours/class
Health-disease measures. Types of epidemiological studies. Cohort studies. Case-control studies. Cross-sectional studies. Ecological studies. Experimental studies. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Historical and Social Basis of Collective Health - 30 hours/class
Sociological and anthropological currents of thought for understanding the health of human collectivities. Historical milestones of collective health. Social inequalities and health. Health and society.
Technical and Scientific Production I - 30 hours/class
Scientific communication and knowledge translation. Scientific writing and article production. Production of didactic/instructional material. Development of social technology.
ELECTIVE COURSES - MASTER'S DEGREE
Thematic area: Health Planning and Management
- Health Services Planning and Management - 30 hours/class
- Public Health Policies - 30 hours/class
- Primary Health Care in the Care Network - 30 hours/class
- Work Process in Health Services - 30 hours/class
- Health Evaluation - 30 hours/class
- Intersectorality and Public Policies in Primary Care - 30 hours/class
Thematic area: Epidemiology
- Epidemiology in Health Services - 30 hours/class
- Biostatistics I - 30 hours/class
- Biostatistics II - 30 hours/class
- Epidemiology of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (English) - 30 hours/class
- Oral Health Epidemiology - 30 hours/class
- Health Surveillance - 30 hours/class
- Epidemiology in Primary Health Care - 30 hours/class
- Medications Epidemiology - 30 hours/class
Thematic area: Social Sciences in Health
- Health-Disease Process - 30 hours/class
- Integrality of Health and Care - 30 hours/class
- Integrality of Care and Adolescence - 30 hours/class
- Teaching, Service and Community Integration - 30 hours/class
- Teamwork Processes and Interprofessionality - 30 hours/class
- Humanisation of Care and Comprehensive Health Care - 30 hours/class
- Health Education and Popular Education - 30 hours/class
- Adult Health: comprehensive care for women, men and the elderly - 30 hours/class
- Integrality of Oral Health Care in Primary Care - 30 hours/class
- Integrative and Complementary Practices - 30 hours/class
- Integrality of Mental Health Care - 30 hours/class
- Autonomy, Behaviour and Health Care - 30 hours/class
- Care in the Life Cycles - 30 hours/class
- Bioethics - 30 hours/class
- Healthy Lifestyle and Collective Health - 30 hours/class
- Lifestyle and Health Promotion - 30 hours/class
Thematic area: Technical-Scientific Production
- Research Methodology - 60 hours/class
- Final Work Seminars - 30 hours/class
- Technical and Scientific Production II - 30 hours/class
- Teaching Internship - 30 hours/class
- Teaching and Fundamentals of Health Education - 30 hours/class
- Papers Workshop - 30 hours/class
CONTACT
PPGSC – Post-Graduate Program in Collective Health
Coordination: Dr. Luciana Bisio Mattos
Contact
Campus 3 - Room A-304 - Map
+55 47 3321-7323
ppgsc@furb.br