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Unit of Study IHE03386 - Health and Indigenous Peoples (2016)

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  • Enrolment information

    This is a core unit for the Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying)

Unit description

Raises understanding of Indigenous health issues, including the impact of lifestyle disease, restricted access to services, and health literacy. Awareness of best-practice Indigenous healthcare strategies will be elevated through discussion, critical analysis, and service planning exercises. The value of participatory-action research in Indigenous healthcare settings will also be discussed.

Unit content

Topic 1: Alternative (Indigenous and Non-Indigenous) conceptions of health and health care

Topic 2: Importance of cultural knowledge for treatment and care-planning

Topic 3: The importance of placing health literacy at the centre of primary healthcare strategies

Topic 4: The principles and practices of Participatory-Action Research (PAR)

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online Session 1 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 demonstrate an understanding of cultural competent healthcare for Indigenous people.
2 develop primary health and health literacy strategies that incorporate Indigenous conceptions of health and health care.
3 discuss how participatory-action research enhances service-provision and health outcomes for Indigenous people.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate an understanding of cultural competent healthcare for Indigenous people.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:
  2. develop primary health and health literacy strategies that incorporate Indigenous conceptions of health and health care.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:
  3. discuss how participatory-action research enhances service-provision and health outcomes for Indigenous people.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7: