TM5541:03
Managing Effective Health Programs
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: TM1320
Second semester flexible delivery.
Staff: Ms M Grant.
This subject examines changing social environments and determinants of health in order to analyse changing health service roles; ways of building effectiveness in primary health care programs, such as STD programs, particularly in rural and remote areas; developing a profile of the practice and target population; enhancing efficiency of programs; ways of integrating disease prevention and health promotion activity in routine practice; health program strategies which add value to population health and primary health care programs; opportunistic screening and early detection, surveillance, follow up methods, protocols, information technology, evidence based approaches to primary care.
Learning Objectives:
- knowledge of public and primary health strategies which have a known impact on and which add value to clinical encounters;
- identify ways of adding population health value to individual care and program activity in the student’s own settings;
- develop knowledge of the target, the practice population and of the determinants which mould health;
- plan screening/early detection programs;
- insight into the challenges presented when reforming workplace activity and of how to manage change.
Assessment by three assignments, completion of workbook.