A guide for Interdisciplinary Service Learning

Cmd Vive Salud: Building a Healthy Habitat.

Careers: open course.

Teaching team: Rodrigo Tapia and Marisa Torres.

Service or product co-built with the community: Design of social projects.

Course level: Different levels.

Brief description of the experience:

The course addresses the relationship between the residential habitat and the health of people in the community. It is important to understand that people’s health is a manifestation of multiple factors, among which social and environmental determinants (SDH) play a fundamental role. Physical space is understood as a relevant factor of health (biopsychosocial) and at the same time, that the state of health, well-being and quality of life is a consequence of the constant exchange of the subject with its surrounding physical space.

Social challenge met: improving the quality of life and well-being of elderly people in socially vulnerable areas.

Learning results achieved: • To value the residential habitat as a determining agent of people’s health in the community. • To develop models of interdisciplinary territorial intervention in healthy housing, with a perspective of social development. • To experience the characteristics of the interdisciplinary teamwork and the work in contact with the community.

Institutions/community partners involved: Senior Club, Municipality.

We are interested that students can, from the development of a work experience with an organization or families of a specific vulnerable territory, learn basic concepts of healthy habitat, generate a relevant interaction and systematic interdisciplinary reflection and develop a social intervention project that works on risk factors and generates protective elements of health.

ODS addressed in the experience: 1, 3 ,10 , 11

Diagnostic analysis of risk and protective factors in the community by means of surveys, interviews and construction of genograms, progress review sessions with both the municipality and the community involved. Assessment/reflection strategies used: