Module Overview

Upon completion of the module, students will be able to:
 

1. Explain the principles and key concepts of primary health care;
2. Identify current and future issues in community health (e.g. communicable diseases, immunisation patterns, environmental health, alternative health practices, disability, gender health, domestic violence, child abuse);
3. Discuss and apply the various concepts related to population health, wellness, community health services, health promotion, risk reduction, early intervention and disease management;
4. Discuss ways health promotion priorities are defined in a community;
5. Apply knowledge of learning styles and learning theories to health education and health promotion;
6. Use a health education framework to assess,  plan, implement and evaluate health promotion in the community;
7. Discuss the role of healthcare providers in primary healthcare;
8. Identify resources available for the promotion of health and wellness across the lifespan; and
9. Recognise social, economic and political determinants of health.

1. The World Health Organisation’s role in global healthcare
2. Primary Health Care models including Alma Ata, the Ottawa Charter, Health for All by the Year 2000 and Millennium Development Goals
3. Concepts related to primary health care: public health, population health, community health, community development, primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention, health promotion, early intervention, risk reduction, disease management and social determinants of health
4. Health promotion and health education theories and models and their application in different contexts
5. Learning styles, adult learning theory and social learning theory
6. Epidemiology and community assessment
7. The role of community assessment in primary healthcare
8. Ethical evidence-based primary health care policy and programmes
9. The influence of poverty and inequity on health and disease.