Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast |
Unit description
Examines the theory and multi-disciplinary practice of health promotion and primary health care. This double-weighted capstone unit provides knowledge and skills for planning, implementing, evaluating and disseminating health promotion and/or primary health care programs to promote health and wellbeing through a community project placement.
Unit content
- Theories and concepts of health promotion, primary health care and behaviour change
- Project management skills
- Working with stakeholders
- Working with individuals and groups: health education and health communication
- Primary health care
- Community and Population Health
- Empowerment and Advocacy
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 | utilise the principles of health promotion, health communication, health education, behaviour change and primary health care in the design of a health promotion project |
| 2 | critically discuss and apply models of health promotion and behaviour change in providing a rationale for the design of a health promotion project |
| 3 | critically evaluate evidence for individual, group and population strategies and methods in health promotion and their most appropriate application; |
| 4 | deliver a negotiated project related to health promotion/primary health care that addresses the needs of a variety of stakeholders |
| 5 | critically reflect on the outcomes of the project in terms of its effectiveness, sustainability and recommendations for the future. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- utilise the principles of health promotion, health communication, health education, behaviour change and primary health care in the design of a health promotion project
- critically discuss and apply models of health promotion and behaviour change in providing a rationale for the design of a health promotion project
- critically evaluate evidence for individual, group and population strategies and methods in health promotion and their most appropriate application;
- deliver a negotiated project related to health promotion/primary health care that addresses the needs of a variety of stakeholders
- critically reflect on the outcomes of the project in terms of its effectiveness, sustainability and recommendations for the future.
Prescribed texts
- Talbot, L & Verrinder, G, 2018, Promoting Health The Primary Health Care Approach, 6th edn, Elsevier, Victoria. ISBN: 9780729542579.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hours (5 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 3 hours (8 weeks ) |
| Community/Professional placement 16 hours (10 weeks) |
| Seminar 1 x 8hr day (1 week ) |
| Assessment | |
| Project Proposal | 10% |
| Literature Review | 20% |
| Report | 40% |
| Presentation | 20% |
| Supervisor evaluation of community engaged learning | 10% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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