Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Online |
Unit description
Raises understanding of Indigenous health issues, including the impact of lifestyle disease, restricted access to services, and health literacy. Awareness of best-practice Indigenous healthcare strategies will be elevated through discussion, critical analysis, and service planning exercises. The value of participatory-action research in Indigenous healthcare settings will also be discussed.
Unit content
Topic 1: Alternative (Indigenous and Non-Indigenous) conceptions of health and health care
Topic 2: Importance of cultural knowledge for treatment and care-planning
Topic 3: The importance of placing health literacy at the centre of primary healthcare strategies
Topic 4: The principles and practices of Participatory-Action Research (PAR)
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of cultural competent healthcare for Indigenous people. |
| 2 | develop primary health and health literacy strategies that incorporate Indigenous conceptions of health and health care. |
| 3 | discuss how participatory-action research enhances service-provision and health outcomes for Indigenous people. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of cultural competent healthcare for Indigenous people.
- develop primary health and health literacy strategies that incorporate Indigenous conceptions of health and health care.
- discuss how participatory-action research enhances service-provision and health outcomes for Indigenous people.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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