PUN106 Population Health
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| Unit code: | PUN106 |
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| Equivalent(s): | PUQ106 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PUN106 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PUQ106 |
| Coordinator: | Julie-Anne Carroll | jm.carroll@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Health professionals face a complex and changing health profile locally, nationally, and internationally. A biomedical model for understanding health problems does not adequately explain these complexities or sufficiently help health professionals successfully intervene to improve the population's health. It is therefore critical for health professionals to reflect upon the social, economic and behavioural factors that influence health and work in partnership to influence these factors.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify the global health priorities and how historical and contemporary public health developments will influence the future of population health.
- Apply a public health framework to the critical evaluation of the impact of social, cultural, economic, and political factors on a specific population and development of strategies to address these factors.
- Professionally communicate with health professionals to persuade and inform them of the importance of social and public health phenomena.
- Collaborate with team members to create and produce a dynamic and cohesive podcast.
- Examine patterns of health inequalities through an epidemiological lens with reference to social and economic structures.
Content
The unit will cover the following:
- the foundations of public health
- an introduction to population health principles
- historical perspectives on population health
- burden of disease concepts
- population health data sources
- the social and cultural determinants of health behaviours and outcomes
- frameworks for responding to population health issues
- contemporary and future challenges and responses to them
- collaborating with other professionals to inform public health
- using new media and digital communication tools to communicate with health professionals and the community
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures - delivered on-campus and offered synchronously online. Recordings are available.
- tutorials - on-campus offerings and recordings are available.
- online drop-ins
- online readings and learning materials
- real world examples of health inequality
- group learning and peer feedback
In order to maximise your learning experience in this unit, each tutorial will be supported by a set readings and a series of guided questions which you will be expected to consider prior to the tutorial. These tutorial sessions maximise shared learning, and help you progress your individual and group work on a real world public health challenge.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback:
- From the lecturer on small group exercises and hands-on application exercises undertaken during tutorial time
- Through responses to questions on the unit Canvas Q&A discussion board
- Individually on the completed criteria sheet for Assessment 2
- In generic feedback to all students on the two summative assessments
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments in this unit:
1. Online Quiz - This will draw on the unit content from the material delivered in lectures and discussed in tutorials and provide an opportunity for you to consolidate what you have learned.
2. Podcast - This will develop your ability to orally communicate research in an engaging and persuasive format. It will connect to specific topics covered in lectures and in-depth in tutorials. You will need to make big data and social theory accessible and understandable to a lay audience.
3. Report - This will develop your research and academic writing skills to deeply investigate a public health and social phenomena occurring within a vulnerable population to produce a report. Sharing your report with your peers will provide the opportunity to reflect on your research and critical analysis.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
You will complete an online quiz. The quiz will cover unit content on social determinants of health, health priorities and the influence of developments on the future of population health.
Assessment: Podcast
You will take on the role of health professionals working in a group to create a podcast for other health professionals on the social determinants of health for a vulnerable population. The podcast will be designed to promote the health and wellbeing of marginalised social and ethnic groups in relation to key health issues faced by that group.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Report
You will produce a research essay on the social determinants of health for a vulnerable population. You will be provided with a template. In your essay you will use social theory and epidemiological evidence from the public health literature to critically analyse social phenomena. This will include the analysis of a cultural artefact that represents your specific public health issues, as well as the provision of epidemiological evidence and socio-cultural analysis of the determinants of the problem.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
Reading and recordings will also be made available via links in the online teaching site (Canvas).
The additional costs associated with undertaking this unit are the costs to participate in class sessions and download materials from the Internet for this unit.
Risk Assessment Statement
Substantial computer-based work will be required. You should ensure that you take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
ACHSM Master Health Service Management Competency Framework 2022
A.a): Action - Communication
A.b): Action - Relationship Management
E.a): Enabling - Health Leadership and Ethical Behaviour
Relates to: Podcast
E.b): Enabling - Impact and Influence
Relates to: Podcast, Report
Relates to: Podcast, Report
Relates to: Podcast, Report
Relates to: Podcast
Relates to: Podcast, Report
Relates to: Podcast, Report
E.c): Enabling - Health Systems
Relates to: Podcast, Report
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report
Relates to: Quiz/Test
Relates to: Podcast, Report
E.d): Enabling - Self-awareness and Self-confidence
E.e): Enabling - Professionalism
E.f): Enabling - Change Leadership
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU60 Graduate Diploma in Public Health
- Apply knowledge of public health principles to current public health issues in diverse local and international contexts
Relates to: Quiz/Test - Critically analyse and synthesise the specialised knowledge, theories and frameworks of public health practice
Relates to: Podcast, Report - Apply advanced oral, written and technical communication and academic skills to professional practice
Relates to: Podcast - Promote efficient and equitable gains in population health through culturally-safe, evidence-based practice.
Relates to: Report
PU77 Graduate Diploma in Health Management and Leadership
- Critically analyse research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches that optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Plan ways to communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable outcomes and sustainable performance in healthcare.
Relates to: Podcast, Report - Critically analyse the benefits and risks of contemporary and emerging health technologies.
Relates to: Podcast - Apply reflective practice to professionally develop self and others.
Relates to: Podcast, Report
PU80 Master of Health, Safety and Environment
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of an advanced body of theoretical and practical knowledge and emerging challenges within the fields of occupational and environmental health/management
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Demonstrate advanced skills and abilities to describe, appraise and apply the major tools and systems of OHS and EH practice and research to identify and manage complex problems
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Integrate and synthesise complex knowledge and apply critical and reflective thinking to advance the discipline’s body of research.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Work independently and in teams to interpret and communicate complex scientific, legal and psychosocial data and present it in a format that is easy to understand
Relates to: Podcast - Enact and apply ethical, culturally safe, socially inclusive principles with self, people, and organisations in diverse contexts.
Relates to: Podcast, Report
PU86 Master of Public Health
- Apply advanced knowledge of public health principles to complex, current public health issues in diverse local and international contexts
Relates to: Quiz/Test - Critically analyse, synthesise and apply the specialised knowledge,theories and frameworks of public health practice
Relates to: Podcast, Report - Apply advanced oral,written and technical communication and research literacy skills to professional practice in interprofessional teams
Relates to: Podcast - Engage professionally to advance efficient and equitable gains in population health through leadership and culturally-safe, evidence-based practice.
Relates to: Report
PU87 Master of Health Management and Leadership
- Critique and engage in research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches to optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Podcast, Report - Communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable and sustainable healthcare.
Relates to: Podcast, Report - Critically analyse and manage the implementation, benefits and risks of contemporary and emerging health technologies.
Relates to: Podcast - Apply reflective practice to professionally develop self and others.
Relates to: Podcast, Report