HLTH463-16X (C) General non-calendar-based 2016

Whanau and Community Health

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2016
End Date: Sunday, 16 October 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 22 July 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 16 September 2016

Description

This course will enable students to design, implement and critically analyse interventions in response to socio-ecological influences on whanau and community health in a health care context.

- Whānau/family assessment, relational practice and issues across the life span
- Health and wellness for whānau/family including those living with disability and impairment
- Primary health care policy and impact on whānau/family health
- Community assessment/Public health  
- Health promotion and education
- Leadership in primary health care
- Mihimihi
- Te Whare Tapa Whā,  Meihana model, Māori health perspectives, health services and health initiatives (including Whānau Ora)

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse the concepts of family and whānau as applied to community health care service provision in a New Zealand context
2. Utilise community health assessment models (across the lifespan) with implicit principles relating to psychology and social behaviour.
3. Identify and evaluate models of health promotion  and health education
4. Analyse and critique the  influences and impact of health care delivery for people living with a disability/impairment and their whānau/family and community
5.  Critically evaluate the significance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi  in primary   health care
6. Integrate and apply the key concepts of Hauora Māori, the health experiences of Māori and identify possible explanations for disparity  
7. Critically evaluate legal and ethical issues in research (including the application of cultural safeguards) related to a health care topic in the community.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School of Health Sciences

Restrictions

HLTH456

Course Coordinator

Judith Yarwood

Email judy.yarwood@cpit.ac.nz

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Written community assessment report and class presentation assignment 19 Sep 2016 50% AIM: To demonstrate a critical understanding of community assessment, the social determinants of health (SDH) and health promotion, by undertaking a community assessment and developing a health promotion resource/strategy for the identified community.
Written whanau/ family assessment and desk based review assignment 05 Oct 2016 50% AIM: To demonstrate a critical understanding of the use of whanau/family assessment models in PHC contexts in New Zealand (NZ). To assess and integrate whanau/ family health with theoretical concepts related to PHC philosophy, whanau/family theory, and ethics. To demonstrate a critical understanding of Maori health within the context of PHC-based family health and assessment. To integrate key concepts of Hauora Maori and Maori health experiences with principles and processes of family assessment and relational inquiry/practice.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,026.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

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