James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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TM1320:03

Managing Health Programs

Townsville

30 lectures, 20 tutorials. Intensive block mode at a time to be determined.

Available to students enrolled in the Diploma of Indigenous Health.

Staff: Ms C Gray.

Required competencies and critical appraisal of health programs conduct, including methods of adding value to individual client contacts, opportunistic, off-site and mass screening, surveillance, community education, early detection, treatment, case finding, information systems and data gathering.

Learning Objectives:

  1. know of a range of public and primary health care strategies and interventions which are known to be effective at health service level;
  2. know of under-utilised public and primary health care strategies which have known impact and which add-value to each clinical encounter and to health service activity;
  3. know of strategies which have been effective in improving program performance;
  4. understand the potential impact of these interventions on health outcomes; critically examine their own health service environments for opportunities which will add health service value by reforming existing activities or introducing new ones;
  5. be able to identify the human and fixed resource requirements of these activities;
  6. be able to identify the benefits and methods of resource re-allocation within existing frameworks;
  7. be able to identify workplace reform strategies which will facilitate productive change.

Assessment by two examinations (60%); assignment (10%); presentation (20%); participation (10%).


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