MPH5002 · Foundations of health promotion and program planning

Overview

This unit introduces you to key principles of, and planning for, health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. You will also develop skills in needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Define and explain the history of preventive health and health promotion
2. Identify and apply the key principles, theories and frameworks, used in health promotion and prevention.
3. Critically reflect on the role of Health Promotion in addressing contemporary and emerging challenges in health.
4. Identify and adapt a range of approaches for promoting health that include upstream, mid-stream and downstream actions.
5. Describe and apply the key steps of program planning including needs analysis, participation and the development of goals, objectives and strategies

Workload

6 hours of teacher-directed learning activities per week, and 6 hours of self-directed study per week. There is an expectation that students will attend 3 on-campus Block Days incorporating 23 contact hours.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.