HSM510 Health Planning (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
Students gain skills in health service planning, a process aimed at improving health services delivery using a deliberate and structured approach. Actual planning issues are identified and students are guided through a service planning process to the point where a planning report, including recommendations for change, are proposed.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HSM510
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- distinguish between strategic, operational and service planning activities and approaches within the health care context;
- demonstrate skills in sourcing, analysing and presenting, epidemiological, demographic and health information for service planning;
- conduct strengths, weakneses, opportunities and strengths (SWOT) analyses, stakeholder analysis and consultations, needs assessments and options analyses within the context of health service planning
- critically analyse political, policy, economic, social, technological and environmental factors which impinge on planning choices and outcomes;
- construct planning documents which demonstrate the acquisition of skills linked to the notion of supply, demand and resource allocation to justify the recommendations;
- develop a service planning implementation schedule incorporating the identification of key performance measures and the ability to monitor and evaluate the impact of change
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- The concept of planning
- Planning in the health services context
- Culture and change - management and leadership
- Needs assessment
- Scenario analysis
- Decision analysis
- Interpreting policy and developing statements of goals and objectives
- Developing submissions for service planning
- Evaluating change
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.