School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Public Health Planning and Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    HST6510
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kelly JAUNZEMS

Description

This unit focuses on the role of planning and evaluation in public health. Students will examine various frameworks, theories and methods in order to develop a rationalised and contextualised public health program plan. The strengths and weaknesses of existing public health programs will be critically appraised so that students can co-create best practice planning and evaluation approaches designed to provide sustainable solutions for diverse health issues. This unit will enable students to develop or extend programs that may constitute their existing work in the industry or to develop new opportunities and collaborations that serve and sustain public health efforts in particular settings.

Incompatible Rule

HST6510 is incompatible with HST6336 and HST6334

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence-based models and frameworks to plan effective public health programs.
  2. Develop a comprehensive public health program plan in collaboration with other students and potential collaborators.
  3. Evaluate public health programs using qualitative and quantitative research methods and appropriate evaluative instruments.

Unit Content

  1. Theoretical foundations of public health planning.
  2. Planning models and frameworks.
  3. Needs, goals and strategy selection.
  4. Funding, budgets and economic benefit.
  5. Formative, process, impact and outcome evaluation.
  6. Contemporary evaluation issues.
  7. Research design and evaluation strategy.
  8. Implementation, sustainability and reporting.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

WIL - Online project or virtual WIL

Work done in a remote or online location - students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and guide students through the content. Students have the opportunity to research concepts, present ideas orally, discuss situations in groups and to develop critical perspectives from written sources. Online students will access eLearning materials via the LMS. Students are expected to login and participate in collaborative discussion activities during specific weeks and are encouraged to think critically to evaluate problems, analyse literature and to develop critical perspectives from written sources.

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
AssignmentNeeds Assessment and Rationale30%
AssignmentComprehensive Program Planning and Peer Review50%
AssignmentGrant Writing20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentNeeds Assessment and Rationale30%
AssignmentComprehensive Program Planning and Peer Review50%
AssignmentGrant Writing20%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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