James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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TM5541:03

Managing Effective Health Programs

Townsville

Inadmissable Subject Combination: TM1320

First semester.

This subject will address the training needs of the existing rural and remote health workforce, in the area of effective program management and population health. Health program strategies which add value to population health and primary health care programs. Opportunistic screening, surveillance, case finding, follow up methods and management protocols.

Learning Objectives:

  1. 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;
  2. know of strategies which have been effective in improving program performance;
  3. understand the potential impact of these interventions on health outcomes;
  4. critically examine health service environments for opportunities which will add health service value by reforming existing activities or introducing new ones;
  5. ability to identify the human and fixed resource requirements of these activities;
  6. ability to identify the benefits and methods of resource reallocation within existing frameworks;
  7. ability to identify workplace reform strategies which will facilitate productive change.

Assessment by examination (30%); case studies (40%); project (20%); class presentation (10%).

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