School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Maternal, Child and Youth Health
  • Unit Code

    HST6341
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ruth Margaret WALLACE

Description

This unit focuses on Australian and International maternal, child and youth health issues and services with special attention to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health needs. Practice issues are discussed and resources to support cross-cultural care services and programs for children, youth and families are identified. Processes for building community constituencies and collaborations to advance maternal, child and youth health within a range of care settings are discussed.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5603

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the history and achievements of maternal, child and youth health services in Australia and internationally.
  2. Appraise the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to maternal, child and youth health service delivery in cross cultural community settings.
  3. Critically discuss evidence and models relating to the role and impact of early life on health and wellbeing among different cultural groups.
  4. Critically discuss the principles and practice of family-centred practice.
  5. Critically discuss the principles of interdisciplinary practice in Indigenous and non-Indigenous primary health care settings.
  6. Interpret processes for building community constituencies and collaborations directed to advancing maternal, child and youth health within local and international primary health care settings.

Unit Content

  1. Unit introduction and National and global maternal, child and youth health
  2. Family and community
  3. The early years of life
  4. Child health and development
  5. Youth health and wellbeing
  6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and programs
  7. Family-centred practice
  8. Interdisciplinary practice and program delivery in primary care settings
  9. Advocating for maternal, child and youth health
  10. Community resources
  11. Case-studies of effective practice

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, readings and e-learning activities.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Wiki: Influences on child, youth and maternal health50%
EssaySupporting and promoting health 30%
Creative WorkInfographic: Advocating to support maternal, child and youth health20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Wiki: Influences on child, youth and maternal health50%
EssaySupporting and promoting health30%
Creative WorkInfographic: Advocating to support maternal, child and youth health20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Maternal, Child and Youth Health
  • Unit Code

    HST6341
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ruth Margaret WALLACE

Description

This unit focuses on Australian and International maternal, child and youth health issues and services with special attention to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health needs. Practice issues are discussed and resources to support cross-cultural care services and programs for children, youth and families are identified. Processes for building community constituencies and collaborations to advance maternal, child and youth health within a range of care settings are discussed.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5603

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the history and achievements of maternal, child and youth health services in Australia and internationally.
  2. Appraise the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to maternal, child and youth health service delivery in cross cultural community settings.
  3. Critically discuss evidence and models relating to the role and impact of early life on health and wellbeing among different cultural groups.
  4. Critically discuss the principles and practice of family-centred practice.
  5. Critically discuss the principles of interdisciplinary practice in Indigenous and non-Indigenous primary health care settings.
  6. Interpret processes for building community constituencies and collaborations directed to advancing maternal, child and youth health within local and international primary health care settings.

Unit Content

  1. Unit introduction and National and global maternal, child and youth health
  2. Family and community
  3. The early years of life
  4. Child health and development
  5. Youth health and wellbeing
  6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and programs
  7. Family-centred practice
  8. Interdisciplinary practice and program delivery in primary care settings
  9. Advocating for maternal, child and youth health
  10. Community resources
  11. Case-studies of effective practice

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, readings and e-learning activities.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Wiki: Influences on child, youth and maternal health50%
EssaySupporting and promoting health 30%
Creative WorkInfographic: Advocating to support maternal, child and youth health20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Wiki: Influences on child, youth and maternal health50%
EssaySupporting and promoting health30%
Creative WorkInfographic: Advocating to support maternal, child and youth health20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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