HSM403 Health and Aged Services Development (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject prepares students to develop and improve health, aged, paramedicine and other health related services. Students will develop an understanding of a variety of methods for identifying community need, and how to use demographic, performance and health status data. A key focus is on being able to translate ideas into tangible improvements through an understanding of change and project management.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
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| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HSM403
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Available only to postgraduate students in aged care, pre-hospital care and health management related courses
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to apply a stakeholder consultation framework to inform health, aged care or prehospital care service development.
- be able to demonstrate an ability to access, represent and analyse basic demographic, performance, health and service data to inform the introduction of a significant change to a health, aged care or prehospital care service
- be able to demonstrate an ability to apply a public health or population based perspective to the introduction of a significant change to a health, aged care or prehospital care service.
- be able to formulate a project plan that incudes a communication strategy to guide a service development project.
- be able to develop and critically analyse strategies related to service development by drawing on change management and leadership theories.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Health, aged care and prehospital care systems
- The changing health, aged care and prehospital care landscape
- Approaches to health, aged care and prehospital care development
- Stakeholder consultation
- Service demand and supply
- Community mapping
- Planning and leading change
- Communication within the context of service development
- Project management
- Resourcing
- Monitoring and evaluation
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.