PUN688 Health Policy in a Global Context
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| Unit code: | PUN688 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PUN688 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Sam Toloo Sheikhzadeh Yazd | sam.toloo@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Health policy is a major driver of health systems, their structure and functioning. Well-informed and executed policies contribute and communicate important information and evidence in the management of health systems. Globalisation, including of the the health sector and its governance structures, present policy-makers with a complex and challenging environment in which to construct and implement responsive health policy.
This unit will provide you with a critical understanding of policy-making theories and principles as well as the interplay between diverse ideas, interests and institutions that influence policy development, implementation and evaluation. Global health issues will be used to illustrate and critically evaluate the policy process providing you with the knowledge and skills required to undertake health policy development, implementation and evaluation in a wide range of contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply theories and frameworks to explain health policy development, implementation and evaluation approaches.
- Critically analyse the impact that diverse contexts have on the selection of policy options.
- Critically evaluate health policy using evidence-based methods and approaches.
- Produce a health policy analysis suitable for dissemination to policy makers.
- Justify and use oral and written skills to communicate policy recommendations to policy makers drawing on health policy and systems research theories and frameworks.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Policy theory, principles & perspectives
- Health policy development
- Policy implementation
- The intersection of health policy and equity, including First Nations' perspectives
- Interdisciplinary and interprofessional perspectives on health policy
- Monitoring, evaluation and research
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- tutorials - delivered on-campus and livestreamed. Recordings are available.
- guest presentations from key industry experts
- online readings and learning materials
- team learning and peer feedback
- Library and Student Success Group support with guest presentations during learning activities.
This unit adopts a blended learning approach that will require you to engage in a range of weekly classes and self-directed learning activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback from your peers and the unit's teaching team through tutorial discussions centered around the unit's learning outcomes and respective assessment items. You will have opportunities to self assess through activities in the online learning materials and tutorial discussions.
Individualised summative feedback will be provided to you after each of the unit's submission deadlines.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments in this unit:
1. Contextual Analysis - This will draw on key understandings of policy theory to support your contextual analysis of a policy response taken by a government in addressing a health-related issue.
2. Critical Evaluation of Policy - This draws on approaches to policy design, implementation and evaluation to produce a critical evaluation of a past policy in order to inform future direction.
3. Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - This synthesises policy theory with real world evidence to justify recommendations for future reform.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Contextual Analysis
You will take on the role of a policy advisor to analyse a policy response taken by a government in addressing a health-related issue. You will apply a framework to explore and explain the underpinning context that influenced the course of action. Your analysis should be structured to inform national or regional policy makers.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Evaluation of Policy
You will take on the role of a political advisor to critically evaluate a previous policy enacted by a government for the purposes of informing national or regional policy makers and their future decisions. Your critique will explore the policy cycle, encompassing design, implementation and evaluation, and consider the impact of the policy from an equity perspective, including, where applicable, interdisciplinary and First Nations' perspectives.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation
Continuing in your role as a political advisor, you will orally present the findings of your critical evaluation (Assessment 2) to inform national and regional policy makers. Your presentation will also outline theory-informed recommendations for future reform.
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
Students will be provided with a study guide, readings, specific materials and information about reference texts at the commencement of the unit. Additional reference materials will be provided on the unit Canvas sit as well as through lectures during the semester.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks with this unit, apart from those associated with this with substantial computer-based work. You should ensure that you take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.NS95 Master of Nursing
- Apply advanced knowledge and skills to manage and improve nursing practices across diverse and complex contexts to improve health outcomes and service provision.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis - Critically analyse evidence to inform decision-making in advanced nursing and interprofessional care contexts.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis, Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Design and develop ethically appropriate research and/or professional plans that respond to a gap in health care that informs best practice.
Relates to: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Communicate complex evidence-based findings through professional dissemination using a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Initiate, lead and reflect on collaborative practice that advocates for ethically and culturally safe care enabling sustainable health service delivery that embeds a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and diverse perspectives.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy
PU77 Graduate Diploma in Health Management and Leadership
- Design innovative and strategic responses to health leadership and management challenges to improve consumer, community, organisational and system level outcomes.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Apply operational management skills to plan, organise and supervise internal organisational processes required for achieving high performance.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Critically analyse research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis, Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches that optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Plan ways to communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable outcomes and sustainable performance in healthcare.
Relates to: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation
PU87 Master of Health Management and Leadership
- Design innovative and strategic responses to health leadership and management challenges to improve consumer, community, organisational and system level outcomes.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Apply operational management skills to plan, organise and supervise internal organisational processes required for achieving high performance.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Critique and engage in research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis, Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches to optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable and sustainable healthcare.
Relates to: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | PUN688 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Health policy is a major driver of health systems, their structure and functioning. Well-informed and executed policies contribute and communicate important information and evidence in the management of health systems. Globalisation, including of the the health sector and its governance structures, present policy-makers with a complex and challenging environment in which to construct and implement responsive health policy.
This unit will provide you with a critical understanding of policy-making theories and principles as well as the interplay between diverse ideas, interests and institutions that influence policy development, implementation and evaluation. Global health issues will be used to illustrate and critically evaluate the policy process providing you with the knowledge and skills required to undertake health policy development, implementation and evaluation in a wide range of contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply theories and frameworks to explain health policy development, implementation and evaluation approaches.
- Critically analyse the impact that diverse contexts have on the selection of policy options.
- Critically evaluate health policy using evidence-based methods and approaches.
- Produce a health policy analysis suitable for dissemination to policy makers.
- Justify and use oral and written skills to communicate policy recommendations to policy makers drawing on health policy and systems research theories and frameworks.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Policy theory, principles & perspectives
- Health policy development
- Policy implementation
- The intersection of health policy and equity, including First Nations' perspectives
- Interdisciplinary and interprofessional perspectives on health policy
- Monitoring, evaluation and research
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- tutorials - delivered on-campus and livestreamed. Recordings are available.
- guest presentations from key industry experts
- online readings and learning materials
- team learning and peer feedback
- Library and Student Success Group support with guest presentations during learning activities.
This unit adopts a blended learning approach that will require you to engage in a range of weekly classes and self-directed learning activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback from your peers and the unit's teaching team through tutorial discussions centered around the unit's learning outcomes and respective assessment items. You will have opportunities to self assess through activities in the online learning materials and tutorial discussions.
Individualised summative feedback will be provided to you after each of the unit's submission deadlines.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments in this unit:
1. Contextual Analysis - This will draw on key understandings of policy theory to support your contextual analysis of a policy response taken by a government in addressing a health-related issue.
2. Critical Evaluation of Policy - This draws on approaches to policy design, implementation and evaluation to produce a critical evaluation of a past policy in order to inform future direction.
3. Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - This synthesises policy theory with real world evidence to justify recommendations for future reform.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Contextual Analysis
You will take on the role of a policy advisor to analyse a policy response taken by a government in addressing a health-related issue. You will apply a framework to explore and explain the underpinning context that influenced the course of action. Your analysis should be structured to inform national or regional policy makers.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Evaluation of Policy
You will take on the role of a political advisor to critically evaluate a previous policy enacted by a government for the purposes of informing national or regional policy makers and their future decisions. Your critique will explore the policy cycle, encompassing design, implementation and evaluation, and consider the impact of the policy from an equity perspective, including, where applicable, interdisciplinary and First Nations' perspectives.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation
Continuing in your role as a political advisor, you will orally present the findings of your critical evaluation (Assessment 2) to inform national and regional policy makers. Your presentation will also outline theory-informed recommendations for future reform.
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
Students will be provided with a study guide, readings, specific materials and information about reference texts at the commencement of the unit. Additional reference materials will be provided on the unit Canvas sit as well as through lectures during the semester.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks with this unit, apart from those associated with this with substantial computer-based work. You should ensure that you take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.NS95 Master of Nursing
- Apply advanced knowledge and skills to manage and improve nursing practices across diverse and complex contexts to improve health outcomes and service provision.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis - Critically analyse evidence to inform decision-making in advanced nursing and interprofessional care contexts.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis, Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Design and develop ethically appropriate research and/or professional plans that respond to a gap in health care that informs best practice.
Relates to: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Communicate complex evidence-based findings through professional dissemination using a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Initiate, lead and reflect on collaborative practice that advocates for ethically and culturally safe care enabling sustainable health service delivery that embeds a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and diverse perspectives.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy
PU77 Graduate Diploma in Health Management and Leadership
- Design innovative and strategic responses to health leadership and management challenges to improve consumer, community, organisational and system level outcomes.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Apply operational management skills to plan, organise and supervise internal organisational processes required for achieving high performance.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Critically analyse research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis, Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches that optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Plan ways to communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable outcomes and sustainable performance in healthcare.
Relates to: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation
PU87 Master of Health Management and Leadership
- Design innovative and strategic responses to health leadership and management challenges to improve consumer, community, organisational and system level outcomes.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Apply operational management skills to plan, organise and supervise internal organisational processes required for achieving high performance.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Critique and engage in research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Contextual Analysis, Critical Evaluation of Policy, Policy Evaluation & Recommendation - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches to optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Critical Evaluation of Policy - Communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable and sustainable healthcare.
Relates to: Policy Evaluation & Recommendation