The Faculty of Science Health and Education offers four short courses in health promotion:
- Public Health Foundations
- Health Promotion Needs Assessment and Planning
- Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
- Health Promotion Principles
Public Health Foundations
Date: 27-30 June 2006
This short course provides the foundations for contemporary public health and health promotion practice. It addresses basic concepts of health and wellbeing, and explores these concepts using various definitions of health. An ecological model of health is used to examine a broad range of influences on health, including elements within the biophysical and socio-economic environments that promote, protect or harm the health of communities and populations, and how these are filtered by biological and behavioural factors. It examines patterns and trends of health in Australia, including inequalities between different groups within the population.
This short course is designed for people interested in developing a greater understanding of the foundations of contemporary public health and health promotion. Participants may include people from the health, education, environment, welfare, transport, sport, recreation, community, planning and development sectors. Participants may be working in international, national, state or local levels on government, non-government, private sector or community-based programs.
Content
- different perspectives of health and wellbeing
- defining public health and health promotion
- defining communities
- historical evolution of public health and health promotion
- ecological approach to public health and health promotion
- public health and health promotion in Australia today
- patterns of health, illness and death in Australia
- national health priorities and strategies
- contribution of public health and health promotion activities to health status
- health inequalities and inequities
- determinants of health
- biological and behavioural determinants of health
- biophysical environment
- socio-economic environment including social, cultural, economic,
political and legislative elements - social justice
- global environments
- sustainability for public health and health promotion
Outcomes
On completion of this short course participants should be able to:
- define and describe the definitions and historical development of public health and health promotion
- compare and contrast various paradigms of public health and health promotion
- analyse national health priorities and the processes used to determine them
- critically reflect on health inequalities and inequities
- describe an ecological model of health
- apply an ecological model of health to contemporary public health issues
More information
- General information, includes course format, venue, cancellation and refunds
- Registration form (PDF 31KB), or registration form (Word 71KB), includes costs
- Contact the Course Coordinator, Ms Lily O'Hara, Tel: +61 7 5430 2824, Email: lohara@usc.edu.au
Health Promotion Needs Assessment and Planning
Date: 3-6 July 2006
This short course explores the process of assessing the health promotion needs of a community, and then the process used to plan appropriate goals and objectives to address identified priorities. Participants will develop skills in working with the Ottawa Charter, Jakarta Declaration and Bangkok Charter for health promotion needs assessment and planning.
This short course is designed for people interested in developing a greater understanding of the needs assessment and planning components of contemporary public health and health promotion programs or projects. Participants may include people from the health, education, environment, welfare, transport, sport, recreation, community, planning and development sectors. Participants may be working in international, national, state or local levels on government, non-government, private sector or community-based programs.
Needs assessment content
- understanding different types of need: normative need, expressed need, comparative need and felt need
- principles of needs assessment research
- needs assessment and planning models
- identifying health issues
- consultation and data collection including naturalistic inquiry and
experimental-type data collection and collation, desktop research
and direct contact, existing and new data, focus groups, survey methods, instrument design - types and sources of data
- gathering data about people and their behaviours including demographic, social indicator, health status and behaviours
- gathering data on the socio-economic and biophysical environments
- presenting the findings
- limitations and potential problems of various data collection mechanisms
Planning content
- principles, processes and criteria for determining priorities
- analysis of health issues and their determinants
- assessing and strengthening community resources
- building a health promotion plan
- planning for sustainability
- establishing SMART goals, objectives and sub-objectives
- models for developing health promotion strategies
Outcomes
On completion of this short course participants should be able to:
- apply the principles underpinning health promotion needs assessment and planning
- undertake the investigative approaches used in the assessment of health promotion need
- conduct a health issue analysis and identify the determinants
- critically review previous programs that have been developed to address health issues
- create goals, objectives and sub-objectives to address identified priority issues
More information
- General information, includes course format, venue, cancellation and refunds
- Registration form (PDF 31KB), or registration form (Word 71KB), includes costs
- Contact the Course Coordinator, Ms Jane Gregg, Tel: +61 7 5459 4639, Email: jgregg@usc.edu.au
Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
Date: 4-7 December 2006
Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation builds skills and knowledge in implementing and evaluating health promotion actions. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is used as the framework for determining appropriate strategies for the implementation of health promotion action. The fundamental principles and values that underpin ecological health promotion are explored. A range of change theories and models that underpin the implementation and evaluation of health promotion actions are examined. Strategies and methods for assessing the readiness for evaluation, and for evaluating the process, impact and outcome of health promotion actions are then explored in detail. Communicating evaluation results and sustaining health promotion action are the final topics addressed in the course.
This short course is designed for people interested in developing a greater understanding of health promotion theory and practice. Participants may include people from the health, education, environment, welfare, transport, sport, recreation, community, planning and development sectors. Participants may be working in international, national, state or local levels on government, non-government, private sector or community-based programs.
Content
- models for planning, implementation and evaluation of health promotion programs
- implementation strategies for health promotion action
- values base for health promotion action
- evidence of effectiveness of health promotion strategies
- introduction to theories underpinning health promotion action
- developing healthy public policy
- behaviour change
- community change
- organisational change
- using the media
- review of implementation strategies, evidence, change theories and capacity to address determinants of health
- working with groups
- working in settings
- process evaluation of health promotion actions
- evaluability of health promotion actions
- impact and outcome evaluation of health promotion actions
- communicating evaluation results
- sustaining health promotion action
Outcomes
On completion of this short course participants should be able to:
- compare and contrast different models of health promotion planning, implementation and evaluation
- explain the use of a range of change theories and models in health
promotion practice - critically review strategies used in previous programs to address a priority issue
- develop health promotion implementation and evaluation plans
- design an appropriate portfolio of health promotion strategies relevant to a specific health promotion issue
- apply the principles and values that underpin health promotion practice in the design and evaluation of change strategies
More information
- General information, includes course format, venue, cancellation and refunds
- Registration form (PDF 31KB), or registration form (Word 71KB), includes costs
- Contact the Course Coordinator, Ms Jane Gregg, Tel: +61 7 5459 4639, Email: jgregg@usc.edu.au
Health Promotion Principles
Date: 28 November - 1 December 2006
This short course explores the construction of health as a basis for health promotion, the scientific discipline of health promotion, including the historical development, philosophical and ethical principles, approaches to health promotion including holistic and ecological health promotion.
This short course is designed for people interested in developing a greater understanding of the principles of health promotion. Participants may include people from the health, education, environment, welfare, transport, sport, recreation, community, planning and development sectors. Participants may be working in international, national, state or local levels on government, non-government, private sector or community-based programs.
Content
- understanding health
- embracing the new sciences to understand the determinants of individual and population health
- health promotion action: responding to the determinants of health
- development of health promotion over time
- critical review of health promotion approaches
- philosophical and ethical principles for health promotion action
- determinants approaches to health promotion
- contemporary health promotion
- breathing spirit into health promotion
Outcomes
On completion of this short course participants should be able to:
- describe the various approaches to understanding health and well being
- define and describe the development and principles of health promotion
- explain the importance of ecological and holistic approaches to health promotion in addressing contemporary health issues
- critically review structures, directions and resources for addressing major health promotion issues in Australia
- apply the philosophical and ethical principles of health promotion
More information
- General information, includes course format, venue, cancellation and refunds
- Registration form (PDF 31KB), or registration form (Word 71KB), includes costs
- Contact the Course Coordinator, Ms Lily O'Hara, Tel: +61 7 5430 2824, Email: lohara@usc.edu.au
General Information
Format
The short courses are interactive and designed to provide participants with practical skills. Course methods include lectures and applied group work. Each course is delivered over four days from 9am-4.30pm. Course notes and certificates of participation will be provided to all participants.
Course facilitators
Lily O'Hara and Jane Gregg from the Faculty of Science, Health and Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast will facilitate the short courses. Lily and Jane have many years of experience working as health promotion practitioners and academics. They teach health promotion and public health courses to students in public health, health promotion, education, nursing and other science degree programs. They are both involved in delivering professional development training to a range of government, non-government, private sector and community organisations.
Venue
Room DG.47, Ground floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building (D Building)
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
The room is accessible by wheelchair. Public transport is available and the campus has free car parking.
Registration acknowledgement
Registration and payment will be acknowledged by email.
Cancellations and refunds
Cancellations must be advised in writing to the Short Course Administrator, Helen Szabo, email hszabo1@usc.edu.au. Cancellations received up to two weeks before the start of the course will receive a refund of registration fees, less an administration charge of A$100. After this date, all refund requests will be subject to the discretion of the Short Course Administrator. The University of the Sunshine Coast reserves the right to cancel the courses if the minimum number of participants is not reached.
Academic credit
Participants that successfully complete post-training assessment and enrol in the corresponding undergraduate or postgraduate course(s) by the census date will be granted academic credit for the completed short course(s).
Further study
The University of the Sunshine Coast offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in public health and health promotion including:
- Bachelor of Health (Health Promotion)
- Bachelor of Science (Public Health)
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health (Human Services and Health Promotion)
- Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion
- Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion
- Master of Health Promotion
For more information, contact the Faculty of Science, Health and Education on +61 7 5430 4656.