HLTH463-24S1 (M) Semester One 2024 (Manawa)

Whanau and Community Health

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 May 2024

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.

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. Integrate the key concepts of Hauora Māori and the health experiences of Māori within Aotearoa, identifying possible explanations for the disparity.
6. Identify legal and ethical issues in research (including the application of cultural safeguards) related to exploring a health care topic in the community.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School of Health Sciences

Restrictions

HLTH456

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Intensive Block Course A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00 Manawa HREF HP106
26 Feb - 3 Mar
Intensive Block Course B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:00 - 17:00 Manawa HREF HP106
26 Feb - 3 Mar
Intensive Block Course C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 17:00 Manawa HREF HP106
26 Feb - 3 Mar
Intensive Block Course D
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00 Manawa HREF HP106
29 Apr - 5 May
Intensive Block Course E
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:00 - 17:00 Manawa HREF HPG10
29 Apr - 5 May
Intensive Block Course F
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 17:00 Manawa HREF HPG10
29 Apr - 5 May

Timetable Note

Timetable 2023
This course is taught in 2 x 3-day block workshops. All content is delivered in person only and all sessions need to be attended. Workshops are not recorded. Please do not schedule appointments during block times. Students will be expected to participate actively in classroom activities.  

All workshops are at Manawa Building 276 Antigua St.
Block course A: Whānau and community health concepts
Block Course B: Community health promotion and community Support

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Wendy Maddocks

Lecturer

Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Meihana Model 25 Mar 2024 25% Essay 1800-2050 words. Learning outcomes 1 & 5.
Family Assessment 29 Apr 2024 35% word limit 2800-3000. Learning outcomes 2 & 6.
Community Assessment and Health Promotion Strategy 04 Jun 2024 40% word limit 3500-3800. Learning outcomes 3 & 4.

Textbooks / Resources

There are no required texts for this course, however, the following textbooks/reading are recommended.
• Doane, Gweneth Hartrick , Varcoe, Colleen; Family nursing as relational inquiry : developing health-promoting practice; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
• Lewis, Peter et al; Weber & Kelley's health assessment in nursing; Second Australian and New Zealand ed; Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.
• Naidoo, Jennie , Wills, Jane; Foundations for health promotion; Fourth edition; Elsevier, 2016.


Required Reading:
Each session will have assigned readings that will be referenced on LEARN, the University’s online course support website LEARN, or sourced by students from the UC library databases. Students are expected to have read these prior to each session.

Additional recommended reading will be placed on the LEARN site once enrolment confirmed.

Students will be required to access and download PDF files of journal articles from UC Library.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,381.00

* 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 .

All HLTH463 Occurrences

  • HLTH463-24S1 (M) Semester One 2024 (Manawa)