HLTH463-22S1 (M) Semester One 2022 (Manawa)

Whanau and Community Health

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2022
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 May 2022

Description

This course will enable students to design, implement and critically analyse interventions in response to socio-ecological influences on whanau and community health in a health care context.

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse the concepts of family and whānau as applied to community health care service provision in a New Zealand context.
2. Utilise community health assessment models (across the lifespan) with implicit principles relating to psychology and social behaviour.
3. Identify and evaluate models of health promotion and health education.
4. Analyse and critique the influences and impact of health care delivery for people living with a disability/impairment and their whānau/family and community.
5. Integrate the key concepts of Hauora Māori and the health experiences of Māori within Aotearoa, identifying possible explanations for the disparity.
6. Identify legal and ethical issues in research (including the application of cultural safeguards) related to exploring a health care topic in the community.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School of Health Sciences

Restrictions

HLTH456

Timetable Note

Timetable 2020: This course is taught in two blocks of 4 and 3 days each. Students must attend one activity from each section. Students will be expected to contribute and participate in classroom activities. Each workshop includes external guest experts.

Intensive Block Course A 2021
Theme: Whanau and community health concepts
08 March-11 March 0900-1630
Venue:  Manawa Building  276 Antigua St

Intensive Block Course B 2021
10 May-12 May
Theme: Community health, promotion and support
Venue:  Manawa Building 276 Antigua St

This course may be taken by students who do not live in Christchurch however attendance at the block courses is required.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Wendy Maddocks

Lecturer

Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay - Meihana Model 29 Mar 2022 25% 1800-2050 words. Learning outcomes 1 & 5.
Assignment - Family Assessment 30 Apr 2022 35% 2250-2550 words. Learning outcomes 2 & 6.
Assignment - Community Assessment and Health Promotion Strategy 03 Jun 2022 40% 4250-4500 words. Learning outcomes 3 & 4.

Textbooks / Resources

There are no required texts for this course, however, the following textbooks/reading are recommended.
• Doane, Gweneth Hartrick , Varcoe, Colleen; Family nursing as relational inquiry : developing health-promoting practice; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
• Lewis, Peter et al; Weber & Kelley's health assessment in nursing; Second Australian and New Zealand ed; Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.
• Naidoo, Jennie , Wills, Jane; Foundations for health promotion; Fourth edition; Elsevier, 2016.


Required Reading:
Each session will have assigned readings that will be referenced on LEARN, the University’s online course support website LEARN, or sourced by students from the UC library databases. Students are expected to have read these prior to each session.

Additional recommended reading will be placed on the LEARN site once enrolment confirmed.

Students will be required to access and download PDF files of journal articles from UC Library.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,255.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

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