TM1320:03
Managing Health Programs
Townsville
Prerequisites: TM1400
30 lectures, 20 tutorials. Intensive block mode.
Available to students enrolled in the Diploma of Indigenous Health.
Staff: Assoc. Professor J Elston.
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:
- know of a range of public and primary health care strategies and interventions which are known to be effective at health service level;
- 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;
- know of strategies which have been effective in improving program performance;
- 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;
- be able to identify the human and fixed resource requirements of these activities;
- be able to identify the benefits and methods of resource re-allocation within existing frameworks;
- be able to identify workplace reform strategies which will facilitate productive change.
Assessment by two examinations (60%); assignment (10%); presentation (20%); participation (10%).