Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 400412

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Description This subject explores the impact and relevance of Primary Health Care in its context as a World Health Organization (WHO) strategy for achieving “Health for All”. It examines the ways in which Primary Health Care, along with other significant WHO initiatives, provides a framework for the organisation of just and humane health care systems and provides an opportunity for detailed discussion of the complex factors that impact on the health status of populations. The integration of associated theoretical concepts will enable an understanding of the complex dimensions of health and well-being to evolve and then to inform health care practices and the planning of programs that can lead to sustainable health within a primary health care framework.

School Nursing & Midwifery

Discipline Health Promotion

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 2 10cp

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Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Restrictions

Students must be enrolled in a postgraduate program. The subject is also available as a non-award subject in online mode.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Critically analyse the principles, strategies and activities of primary health care linked to the World Health Organization’s quest for 'Health for All'  within local and global contexts.

2. Critically evaluate the congruence between primary health care principles and practices as they relate to local and national health care policies.

3. Critically explore the relationship between people’s health outcomes and the global, cultural, social, and socio-economic determinants of health and wellbeing.

4. Conduct a community needs assessment in the context of primary health care.

5. Devise an implementation plan for facilitating health related changes in organisations and       communities within a primary health care framework.

Subject Content

Definitions and meanings of health;
Social determinants of health and wellbeing;
Health policy orientation: welfare and privatised, concepts and values;
Primary Health Care principles and practices;
Health Promotion: issues and strategies for the promotion of health in a globalised context;
Approaches to health promotion including the use of media;
Community needs assessment; capacity building and healthy settings;
Projects for health.