HS5601 - Health and Community Integration

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Mount Isa Centre for Rural & Remote Health

Available to students enrolled in the Grad Cert in Rural and Remote Paramedic Practice.

This subject consists of 3 modues. Aboriginal Health: The burden and determinants of disease. Primary Health care roles. Programs at community and practice level. Information systems. Responding to Indigenous health policy. Planning and evaluation. Screening and reporting. Risk evaluation. The contribution of poor Aboriginal health data. Ethical research and consent. Health Promotion Practice: What is health promotion? National health priority areas. Applying knowledge of social determinants of health to clinical managment. Implementation of health promotion and disease prevention in health practice. Information systems. PHC team roles in health promotion. Planning and evaluating a health promotion activity. Infectious Disease: 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 PHC providers. Epidemic potential and herd immunity.

Learning Outcomes

• * Be able to apply relevent population health policy and strategies. * Access information on social determinants of health relevant to primary health care * Collect relevant data at prctice and broader level * Educate individuals, families and communities about determinants of health, prevention and health promotion activity and accessing support services * Be familiar with relevant national policies and their relevance to practice * Be aware of population health issues unique to Aboriginal health.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Dennis Pashen
Lecturer:	jc142642.
Contact hours:	90 hours - Online course modules
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	assignments.
Special Assessment Requirements:	Community Health Needs assessment of the students community (to a prescribed template) and critical analysis of results.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.