Health education and teaching innovation at the university: Experience with students of social sciences

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to show how health education can be introduced transversally in the university to improve the quality of life of students. Through a teaching innovation project, we have incorporated a meeting point to educate and inform about health education, involving 180 students from the social education degree at the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain). The methodology followed is quantitative using an ex professo script and analyzing the data with the SPSS software in order to measure the satisfaction degree of student with respect to 5 variables: usefulness, methodology, organization and resources, teaching staff and general satisfaction. The results show that the majority of students are satisfied with the inclusion of health education related topics.