HS5004:03
Population Health for Clinicians 4
| Mt Isa | HECS Band 2 |
120 hours flexible delivery. Limited attendance Semester 1 and 2.
Available to students enrolled in the Postgraduate Diploma of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Postgraduate Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Postgraduate Diploma of Rural and Remote Medicine, Master of Public Health, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Public Health/Master of Business Administration, Master of Rural and Remote Medicine. Must be a medical practitioner, Division of General Practice staff, General Practice staff or other health professional as agreed to by the Head, Mt Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health (MICRRH).
Staff: Assoc. Professor D Pashen, Dr E Chalmers.
This subject consists of three modules:
The Health Promoting Medical Practice: What is health promotion? National health priority areas. Applying knowledge of social determinants of health to clinical management. Implementation of health promotion and disease prevention in medical practice. Information systems. GPs and divisions in health promotion. Planning and evaluating a GP health promotion activity. Meeting practice accreditation standards in the health promotion.
Infectious Diseases: Examine a range of cases requiring population health approaches. Determinants. Sources of population health data. The burden of infectious diseases. Risk assessment. Outbreak responses by GPs. Epidemic potential and herd immunity.
Obesity: This subject looks at methods of measuring health and analysing data in clinical practice using epidemiological and biostatistical methods. Measures of frequency and association. Statistical tests. Age standardisation. Using ‘Excel’ – manipulating a data set, calculating measures of central tendency. Using AIHW data. Quantitative evaluation of local programs.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate progress towards the routine integration of surveillance and screening systems in the practice;
- identify and conduct appropriate responses to outbreaks;
- source and analyse population health data;
- collect and analyse relevant data at practice and broader level;
- be familiar with the use of ‘Excel’ statistical package;
- understand and implement evaluation tools within general practice;
- understand and implement research tools and methods within the clinical context of general practice;
- plan a health promoting medical practice and meet relevant accreditation criteria.
Assessment by projects (50%); assignments (50%).