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INDH5211: Community Profiling and Setting Priorities
2024 unit information
This is the first of six sequential, interdependent modules, available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion. Students will be introduced to the overarching principles of health promotion, its conceptual and technical components and its role in preventing or reducing the impact of injury and ill health. Different concepts of health will be explored with a particular emphasis on indigenous approaches to understanding health and wellbeing. Students will then commence the development of a comprehensive profile of their chosen community. Particular attention will be given to finding, understanding, managing and presenting statistical, epidemiological and other forms of data in a way that is accessible to the students, their professional colleagues, other health and funding agencies and community members. The development of a community profile will enable students to define and understand how their community functions, recognise the determinants of health that impact on their chosen community, and identify priority health issues. It will act as a foundation for the development of appropriate and effective health promotion programs. The final 20 per cent of INDH5211 will be dedicated to commencing INDH5212.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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INDH5212 and INDH5213 |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. describe the overarching principles of health promotion
- LO2. undertake formative research to generate community data.
- LO3. access, interpret, evaluate and apply various forms of information to support community profiling
- LO4. identify the barriers and enablers of health in the chosen community
- LO5. develop a comprehensive profile of a chosen community.
- LO6. identify and describe a community priority health issue and justify its selection.
- LO7. work collaboratively as well as independently and engage in self-directed and reflective learning.
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