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MPH5269

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 16 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Coordinator(s)

Professor Just Stoelwinder

Quota applies

This unit is quota restricted. Selection is on a first-in, first enrolled basis.

Offered

Alfred Hospital

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • First semester 2016 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Delivery of health services is underpinned by a framework of health policies and other health system elements. Health professional leaders and managers, and those who aspire to these roles, need to know about these policies and about the process of policy making so that they can understand why a policy is what it is, and how to engage in the policy making process.

This unit involves a structured review of policy making processes, via WebCT based modules, readings and online tasks, supplemented by workshops with senior health policy practitioners. It considers key challenges and major issues confronting governments and health systems around the world, and how policy can help address these. The unit presents foundation concepts in health policy, which can be extended with further study of health care delivery policies (MPH5272) and/or global health and primary prevention policies (MPH5260).

Outcomes

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

  1. Understand the policy process
  2. Identify and analyse stakeholder interests
  3. Recognise key current issues on the Australian and global health policy agendas
  4. Locate sources of information guiding health policy content and process.
  5. Critically analyse policies
  6. Evaluate the implications of the political context of policy development
  7. Draw out the policy implications of research evidence and other forms of evidence
  8. Present well-informed, clear, and well-reasoned arguments on policy-relevant questions
  9. Critically reflect on their learning about health systems policy and its application and/or future development.

Assessment

Web-based tasks (40%)
Written assignments (60%)

Workload requirements

15 contact hours over 2 block days.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Just Stoelwinder

Prohibitions

MPH5231.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad