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Health Promotion 2 (ORAL20001)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Year Long (Extended)
Melbourne Dental School
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject comprises five modules:
Health Promotion Principles: Public health and the social determinants of health, primary health care, health promotion and education; health promotion models and strategies; evidence-based oral health promotion; health promotion programs; health promotion program planning, implementation and evaluation.
Health Education: Health education in context; health behaviours, communication and counselling skills; teaching and learning methodology; interpersonal and group skills; health education models and frameworks; educational evaluation; and may include field visits and practical work.
Ethics and Professional Practice: Policies that affect oral health practice, dental professional practice regulation and legislation, the principles and application of ethics to health care and human research, privacy, record keeping and health consumer issues; ethics for professional practice.
Applied Health Education: School curriculum frameworks, settings and strategies for health education, educational technology and aids for oral health and applied health education experience via in-class practical sessions and field visits.
Oral Health Therapy Research Preparation: This module enables students to prepare for their final year Oral Health Therapy Research subject. It includes an introduction to project selection and preparation of a learning plan with support.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Use evidence to plan, deliver and evaluate oral health promotion and education interventions for community groups;
- Work effectively with individuals and groups to improve health literacy and promote their oral health;
- Use culturally sensitive approaches in communication and health promotion;
- Apply ethical principles to the practice of oral health therapy
- Use a research framework to plan for the oral health therapy research project undertaken in third year.
Comprehend:
- The characteristics of public health programs and their evaluation;
- The health promotion planning process which identifies the oral health needs of a community and applies available resources in the most equitable and efficient way to meet those needs;
- The social and environmental determinants of health and their influence on oral health;
- The application of theory and evidence to inform health promotion and education planning and evaluation
- The role of health education as a component of health promotion;
- f) and the principles of: i. Health promotion theories and their application ii. Teaching methodologies and their application to health education; iii. The evaluation of health promotion interventions;
- The role of regulations, ethics and education in influencing the practice of oral health therapy.
Demonstrate:
- The capacity to communicate with people and the community to identify and address health education needs;
- and an understanding of: i. the techniques for planning, delivery, and evaluation of a variety of health education activities; ii. the policies that shape oral health therapy practice; iii. the legislation governing the practice of oral health therapy; and iv. ethical principles and their application.
Appreciate:
- The concepts of ethical and professional practice and the responsibilities of health practitioners in the community.
- The dimensions of health education and health promotion within the delivery of dental, medical, allied health, and educational services; and
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should have developed skills in:
- Observation and evaluation;
- Communication;
- Planning and presenting;
- Academic writing and referencing;
- Searching, retrieval and application of evidence;
- Skills in Information technology and use of academic databases;
- Understand the social and cultural diversity in our community
- Planning, delivery and evaluation of programs; and
- Teamwork skills
- Professional practice and ethics.
Last updated: 31 October 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
a minimum of 100 credit points of successfully completed Year 1 Bachelor of Oral Health subjects
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 October 2023
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Two written assignments – one each in Health Promotion Principles and Health Education
| to be submitted mid-teaching period | 25% |
Two written assignments – one each in Health Promotion Principles and Health Education (2500 words total)
| End of the teaching period | 30% |
One written assignment in Ethics and Professional practice
| Mid-teaching period | 20% |
One written report in Applied Health Education
| End of the teaching period | 25% |
Submission of plan for OHT Research
| End of the teaching period | N/A |
75% attendance at Lectures; 100% attendance at Seminars/Tutorials and Practical Classes Hurdle requirement: 75% attendance at Lectures; 100% attendance at Seminars/Tutorials and Practical Classes | N/A |
Last updated: 31 October 2023
Dates & times
- Year Long (Extended)
Principal coordinator Roisin McGrath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 128 hours of lectures, seminars, computer assisted learning, practical work and field visits Total time commitment 310 hours Teaching period 11 January 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 22 January 2021 Census date 31 May 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Year Long (Extended) contact information
Melbourne Dental School
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 31 October 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Second Opinion: An introduction to Health Sociology by Germov Latest Edition
Recommended texts and other resources
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Oral Health
Last updated: 31 October 2023