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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%); written assignments (85%).