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NUR5844 - Health promotion and education

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Coordinator(s)

Katie Piper

Offered

Peninsula

Second semester 2016 (Flexible)

Synopsis

This unit identifies the World Health Organisations role in advocating and supporting the global health agenda of health for all. Primary health care as a philosophy and a model of health service provision are described. Health education and promotion as strategies for achieving health for all are examined. Nurses, midwives and doctors are encouraged to develop health education and health promotion skills that can be utilised in our contexts of practice to promote population wellbeing.

Outcomes

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

Expand on concepts from previous studies of health and nursing to be able to undertake leadership roles in population health, health promotion and education;
Identify, analyse and evaluate national and international frameworks for primary health care and health promotion initiatives with special references to the work of the World Health Organisation (WHO);
Identify major community health needs and issues of clinical relevance, with particular focus on vulnerable communities;
Analyse various methods of population-based approaches to data collection;
Utilise national and international collaborative health practice models in designing population-based approaches to primary health care;
Apply primary health care frameworks and health promotion principles such as equity, community engagement and partnerships to undertake a health needs assessment.