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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

24

AQF level

8

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Health and Human Sciences

Pre-requisites

Admission into 3007224 - Bachelor of Occupational Therapy OR Admission into 3007308 - Bachelor of Podiatry OR Admission into 3007306 - Bachelor of Speech Pathology OR Admission into 3507324 - Bachelor of Occupational Therapy with Honours AND 276 credit points or equivalent of admitted course AND HLT10594 - Evaluation of Occupational Therapy Programs OR HLT83002 - Allied Health Honours Seminar II OR HLT30002 - Clinics in Multimodal Intervention: Internal

Unit aim

Examines the theory and multi-disciplinary practice of health promotion and primary health care. This double-weighted capstone unit provides knowledge and skills for planning, implementing, evaluating and disseminating health promotion and/or primary health care programs to promote health and wellbeing through a community project placement.

Unit content

  • Theories and concepts of health promotion, primary health care and behaviour change
  • Project management skills
  • Working with stakeholders
  • Working with individuals and groups: health education and health communication
  • Primary health care
  • Community and Population Health
  • Empowerment and Advocacy

Learning outcomes

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.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 utilise the principles of health promotion, health communication, health education, behaviour change and primary health care in the design of a health promotion project
2 critically discuss and apply models of health promotion and behaviour change in providing a rationale for the design of a health promotion project
3 critically evaluate evidence for individual, group and population strategies and methods in health promotion and their most appropriate application;
4 deliver a negotiated project related to health promotion/primary health care that addresses the needs of a variety of stakeholders
5 critically reflect on the outcomes of the project in terms of its effectiveness, sustainability and recommendations for the future.

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

  1. utilise the principles of health promotion, health communication, health education, behaviour change and primary health care in the design of a health promotion project
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  2. critically discuss and apply models of health promotion and behaviour change in providing a rationale for the design of a health promotion project
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. critically evaluate evidence for individual, group and population strategies and methods in health promotion and their most appropriate application;
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  4. deliver a negotiated project related to health promotion/primary health care that addresses the needs of a variety of stakeholders
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  5. critically reflect on the outcomes of the project in terms of its effectiveness, sustainability and recommendations for the future.
    • GA3:
    • GA5:

Prescribed texts

  • Talbot, L & Verrinder, G, 2018, Promoting Health The Primary Health Care Approach, 6th edn, Elsevier, Victoria. ISBN: 9780729542579.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.