MPH2031

Public health policy

(MED)

Associate Professor D Legge

6 points + 2 contact hours per week + First semester + Melbourne University Hawthorn Campus

Synopsis: Health policy. Governmental institutions & their roles in public health. Legislative processes & the participants in them. Initiation & formulation of policy. Planning. Common approaches. Stakeholders & their role in public health planning. Institutional imperatives in the planning process. Strategies for influencing the development of public health plans. Case studies. Public health plans & the planning at State, regional & local levels. Processes of development, implementation & evaluation.

Assessment: Assignments