HLTH463-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Whanau and Community Health

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

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 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 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Intensive Block Course A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01-P1 Monday 09:00 - 16:30 Manawa HREF HP107
22 Sep - 28 Sep
01-P2 Tuesday 09:00 - 16:30 Manawa HREF HP107
22 Sep - 28 Sep
01-P3 Wednesday 09:00 - 16:30 Manawa HREF HP107
22 Sep - 28 Sep
Intensive Block Course B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01-P1 Monday 09:00 - 16:30 Manawa HREF HP107
29 Sep - 5 Oct
01-P2 Tuesday 09:00 - 16:30 Manawa HREF HP107
29 Sep - 5 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Zoom
21 Jul - 27 Jul
4 Aug - 10 Aug
18 Aug - 24 Aug
15 Sep - 21 Sep
6 Oct - 12 Oct

Course Coordinator

Wendy Maddocks

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay 07 Aug 2025 20% Learning Outcomes Assessed: 1, 5. Pass criteria: 50%.
Assignment 40% Learning Outcomes Assessed: 2, 6. Pass criteria: 50%. Due date: 19 September + in class presentation 22 September
Assignment 17 Oct 2025 40% Learning Outcomes Assessed: 3, 4. Pass criteria: 50%.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,524.00

* 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 .

All HLTH463 Occurrences

  • HLTH463-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025