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HSHM301 Health Education and Promotion

Updated: 19 October 2011
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Trimester 1 On Campus
Armidale Trimester 2 Off Campus
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites experienced health worker or HSNS275 and HHSC237 or candidature in BHACS
Co-requisites None
Restrictions HSHM501 or NS301 or NS401 or NS501 or PH301 or PH501
Notes None
Combined Units HSHM501 - Health Education and Promotion
Coordinator(s) Mary Ditton (mary.ditton@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit provides a detailed overview of issues in health education and health promotion. It helps students gain a good understanding in both conceptual and operational issues in health promotion, including program planning, management and evaluation. To help understand the practical aspects of health promotion, it also describes the settings approach to health promotion and include examples of its implementation.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Health Promotion: Principles and Practice in the Australian Context
ISBN: 9781741750171
Fleming, M.L. and Parker, E., Allen & Unwin 3rd ed. 2007
Text refers to: Trimester 1 and 2 , On and Off Campus
Recommended Material
Optional 		Text(s):

Note: Recommended material is held in the University Library - purchase is optional

Health and Human Behaviour
ISBN: 9780195559125
Jones, K. and Creedy, D., Oxford University Press 2nd ed. 2007
Text refers to: Trimester 1 and 2 , On and Off Campus
Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach
ISBN: 9780729539241
Talbot, L. and Verrinda, G., Churchill Livingstone 4th ed. 2010
Text refers to: Trimester 1 and 2 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 40% 2000-2500
Assessment Notes
Essay
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8
Assignment 2 60% 3000
Assessment Notes
Essay
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. discuss the context of health promotion and be able to critically reflect on key issues;
  2. understand the principles and strategies for effective health education;
  3. describe the principles of program planning, management and evaluation;
  4. reflect on the ethical and political dimensions of health promotion;
  5. understand the need for a settings approach to health promotion and be able to explain the strengths and weaknesses of health promotion in different settings.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Theory and practice related to health promotion will be taught, learning activities will focus on developing deep understanding and this will be assessed in Assignments 1 and 2. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Students will practice communication during participation in online discussion with students and unit coordinator. Teaching incorporates the range of presentational approaches. Assessment of communication will occur in the written assignments. 		True True
3 Global Perspectives
Text book content and readings provide international comparative data and knowledge of the health promotion used internationally, so that students gain a global perspective of health promotion. Both written assessments require students to provide some comparative analysis of health promotion utilized in specific contexts. 		True
4 Information Literacy
This unit requires that the student engage in seeking information from various sources, libraries, and the web and to analyse that data in two written assessment. 		True True
5 Life-Long Learning
These students are postgraduate health professionals where there is strong encouragement an indeed necessity for continuing professional development. The students are encouraged through discussion board on the learning platform to engage in professional associations and continue professional development. 		True
6 Problem Solving
Students are required to analyse health problems in communities and prepare health promotion strategies to solve problems within the resource constraints of the community. They are required in both written assignments to relate their answers to comparative analysis and problem solving relevant to their work context and to differing theoretical contexts. The attribute is assessed through the written assignments and the formal mentors report. 		True True
7 Social Responsibility
Unit content addresses issues of equity and universality of access to health services the underlying, social, political and economic underpinnings of those approaches in differing health systems. Assessment is by two written assignments. 		True True
8 Team Work
Students are required to consider the team management as they develop health promotion strategies within a collaborative multi-professioanl environment. Interprofessional team work and team based practice is relevant to health system functioning. Assessment is through written assessment. 		True True
   

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