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School: Nursing and Midwifery

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.

  • Unit Title

    Primary Health Care

  • Unit Code

    NCS3102

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Primary Health Care, which focuses on illness prevention and wellness promotion, is a growing priority within Australian health care. Engagement in Primary Health Care services offers exciting and challenging opportunities for health professionals. This unit will enable students to develop understanding and skills in this increasingly important area of health. Primary Health Care theory, including health education, health promotion and behaviour-change models will be studied. Students will learn how to access and analyse epidemiological health data, in order to identify the health needs of communities. The skills needed to plan health promotion activities in order to encourage good health and meet community health needs will be examined. An important aspect of this unit is the consideration of how good health can be encouraged with individuals, families and communities and across all ages and cultures. The unit will have a wide geographical focus and will include local, national and international examples of Primary Health Care.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from NCS2101, NCS2102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NNT3204

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Access and analyse epidemiological data to determine community health needs and socioecological determinants of health.
  2. Analyse and apply the concepts of health promotion/education, health maintenance and disease prevention across the life span, and within different cultures and populations.
  3. Critically appraise and argue the relevance of Primary Health Care to their own health profession and role against the background of changing health needs of the Australian population.
  4. Plan theoretical Primary Health Care activities and strategies to meet identified community health needs.
  5. Use knowledge of the demographic health changes within the Australian population over the past and present century to infer future primary health care needs.

Unit Content

  1. Concepts and models of health education, health promotion and community empowerment.
  2. Epidemiological data access and analysis techniques and community health need prioritisation methods.
  3. Examples of the changing and evolving role of health professionals in Primary Health Care.
  4. Principles and examples of Primary Health Care at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, health as a holistic concept and the socio-ecological determinants of health.
  5. The concepts of family and community, the range of types and structures and their intrinsic power and influence on health.
  6. The demographic changes to Australian health over the past and current century and their relevance to Primary Health Care Services.
  7. Theoretical health promotion interventions across different population/generational cohorts.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus: Lectures, online resources and tutorials. Online: Online lectures, online resources

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayAnalyse a primary health care issue40%
TestMid semester quiz20%
Case StudyPrimary health care application40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayAnalyse a primary health care issue40%
TestMid semester quiz20%
Case StudyPrimary health care application40%

Text References

  • ^ Talbot, L &Verrinder, G. (2014) Promoting Health. The Primary Health care Approach (5th ed.). Australia: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier.
  • Keleher, H., MacDougall, C., & Murphy, B. (Eds). (2007). Understanding health promotion. Victoria: Oxford University Press.
  • McKenzie, J. F., Neiger, B. L., & Thackeray, R. (2009). Planning, implementing & evaluating health promotion programs (5th ed.). San Fransisco: Pearson.
  • McMurray, A & Clendon, J.(2010) Community Health and Wellness 4e. Primary Health Care in Practice (4th ed) Australia: Churchill, Elsevier.

Journal References

  • All these journals are available online via the ECU library website.
  • Primary Health Care
  • Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Health Promotion Practice
  • Community Practitioner Note: All these journals are available online via the ECU library website.
  • Health Education

Website References

^ Mandatory reference

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Nursing and Midwifery

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.

  • Unit Title

    Primary Health Care

  • Unit Code

    NCS3102

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Primary Health Care, which focuses on illness prevention and wellness promotion, is a growing priority within Australian health care. Engagement in Primary Health Care services offers exciting and challenging opportunities for health professionals. This unit will enable students to develop understanding and skills in this increasingly important area of health. Primary Health Care theory, including health education, health promotion and behaviour-change models will be studied. Students will learn how to access and analyse epidemiological health data, in order to identify the health needs of communities. The skills needed to plan health promotion activities in order to encourage good health and meet community health needs will be examined. An important aspect of this unit is the consideration of how good health can be encouraged with individuals, families and communities and across all ages and cultures. The unit will have a wide geographical focus and will include local, national and international examples of Primary Health Care.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from NCS2101, NCS2102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NNT3204

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Access and analyse epidemiological data to determine community health needs and socioecological determinants of health.
  2. Analyse and apply the concepts of health promotion/education, health maintenance and disease prevention across the life span, and within different cultures and populations.
  3. Critically appraise and argue the relevance of Primary Health Care to their own health profession and role against the background of changing health needs of the Australian population.
  4. Plan theoretical Primary Health Care activities and strategies to meet identified community health needs.
  5. Use knowledge of the demographic health changes within the Australian population over the past and present century to infer future primary health care needs.

Unit Content

  1. Concepts and models of health education, health promotion and community empowerment.
  2. Epidemiological data access and analysis techniques and community health need prioritisation methods.
  3. Examples of the changing and evolving role of health professionals in Primary Health Care.
  4. Principles and examples of Primary Health Care at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, health as a holistic concept and the socio-ecological determinants of health.
  5. The concepts of family and community, the range of types and structures and their intrinsic power and influence on health.
  6. The demographic changes to Australian health over the past and current century and their relevance to Primary Health Care Services.
  7. Theoretical health promotion interventions across different population/generational cohorts.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus: Lectures, online resources and tutorials. Online: Online lectures, online resources

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayAnalyse a primary health care issue40%
TestMid semester quiz20%
Case StudyPrimary health care application40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayAnalyse a primary health care issue40%
TestMid semester quiz20%
Case StudyPrimary health care application40%

Text References

  • ^ Talbot, L &Verrinder, G. (2014) Promoting Health. The Primary Health care Approach (5th ed.). Australia: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier.
  • Keleher, H., MacDougall, C., & Murphy, B. (Eds). (2007). Understanding health promotion. Victoria: Oxford University Press.
  • McKenzie, J. F., Neiger, B. L., & Thackeray, R. (2009). Planning, implementing & evaluating health promotion programs (5th ed.). San Fransisco: Pearson.
  • McMurray, A & Clendon, J.(2010) Community Health and Wellness 4e. Primary Health Care in Practice (4th ed) Australia: Churchill, Elsevier.

Journal References

  • All these journals are available online via the ECU library website.
  • Primary Health Care
  • Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Health Promotion Practice
  • Community Practitioner Note: All these journals are available online via the ECU library website.
  • Health Education

Website References

^ Mandatory reference

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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