TM5541:03
Managing Effective Health Programs
| External | HECS Band 2 |
Semester 2.
Staff: Ms S Devine (Coordinator).
This subject examines the 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, especially in rural and remote areas; how to develop a profile of the practice and target population; how to enhance 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; health program planning and evaluation; opportunistic screening and early detection; surveillance and follow up methods; protocols and evidence based approaches to primary care.
Learning Objectives:
- describe public and primary health care strategies which have a known impact on and which add value to clinical encounters;
- describe the determinants which mould health;
- undertake a needs analysis in a defined area;
- identify ways of adding population health value to individual care and program activity in the student’s own workplace setting;
- describe the target and practice population of health care setting;
- plan screening, prevention and early detection programs;
- establish recall methods;
- discuss evidence-based approaches to primary health care;
- describe the use of guidelines in a health care service;
- describe planning and evaluation processes in primary health care services;
- have an insight into the challenges presented when reforming workplace activity and how to manage change.
Assessment by workbook (15%); assignment 1 – Population survey (35%); assignment 2 – Plan of an early detection activity (25%); assignment 3 – Health service analysis and planning (25%).