Postgraduate - UnitHSC5002 - Foundations of health promotion and program planning

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital First semester 2015 (Day) Alfred Hospital First semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Ben Smith

Synopsis

This unit provides opportunities to examine the impact of multiple factors that contribute to the health of populations, known collectively as the social determinants of health, and to develop knowledge and skills in program planning for health promotion. Students will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. They will develop skills in needs assessment, priority setting, designating targets for change, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and establishing systems for program management. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability examined. Attention will be given to the opportunities and challenges presented in different organisational settings and social and cultural contexts.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Define health promotion from differing perspectives and explain the principles that underpin contemporary health promotion;
Describe and discuss a range of frameworks for promoting health and how they are used in health promotion programs;
Critically reflect on the link between the social determinants of health and social equity, health inequities and the ethical project of health promotion;
Describe the steps in comprehensive program planning as a basis for action to address health determinants;
Identify the information sources that can be used to identify health needs, assess determinants and select targets for change;
Demonstrate an understanding of priority setting and specification of goals, objectives and strategies based on a logic model;
Demonstrate the use of evidence and theory in all stages of planning, including evaluation.