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HPOL5008: Evidence into Health Policy and Planning
The aim of this unit is to increase students' understanding about the links between evidence and policy and planning and to build skills for making an evidence based case for change and implementing evidence based policy. The unit also advances conceptualisations of evidence for policy to include citizen, consumer and community experience as evidence. The teaching of this course will include: lectures, critical appraisal workshops, guest presentations from leading policy makers and student presentations of how evidence from research can assist them to address real world issues.. By the end of this unit students will be able to: Use evidence to identify areas that require policy change; Search for and critically appraise evidence for policy design and implementation; Understand key theories of the use of evidence in policy and practice; Critically analyse the role of evidence in policy and political processes; Understand citizen and community experience as evidence; Use evidence effectively in a case for policy change. Attendance at two Saturday workshops is expected for students in all modes, either face-to-face or online. A proportion of the total grade (10%) will be allocated to participation across the semester in lectures, webinars and weekly discussions.
| Code | HPOL5008 |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. use evidence to identify areas that require policy change
- LO2. search for, and critically appraise, evidence for policy design and implementation
- LO3. understand key theories of the use of evidence in policy and practice
- LO4. (critically) analyse the role of evidence in policy and political processes
- LO5. identify facilitators and barriers to the use of evidence in policy
- LO6. understand expanded conceptualisations of evidence for policy
- LO7. use evidence effectively in a case for policy change.
Unit outlines
Unit outlines will be available 2 weeks before the first day of teaching for the relevant session.
- Semester 1, 2024 [Block mode] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2024 [Online] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2020 [Block mode] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2021 [Block mode] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2021 [Block mode] - Remote
- Semester 1, 2021 [Online] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2022 [Block mode] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2022 [Block mode] - Remote
- Semester 1, 2022 [Online] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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