Integrated training in computer courses for the construction of the socioecological approach to health

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of curricula with regard to the health approach in the Higher Computing Courses of three institutions. We propose to identify the contribution of curricula in the constitution of a subject, who views health as physical, biopsychosocial and environmental well-being and not merely the absence of disease. For that, in the menus and bibliographies of the subjects of the curricular structure of the courses, we searched for words related to health and the integral training of the subjects. In this analysis, computing and, more specifically, the Degree in Computing develops health concepts, in the perspective of self-care, health promotion and disease prevention through the construction of computational thinking, which enables the processing of information essential to decision-making regarding access, understanding, evaluation and use of instruments, standards and guidelines.