Health Promotion 2 (ORAL20001)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 25On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
Contact information
Year Long
Claire Mustchin
Overview
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| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject comprises four 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.
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, interviews and field visits.
Ethical Practice and Research in Oral Health: 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, selection of and preparation for final year oral health therapy research projects.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Identify the social and environmental determinants of health and their influence on oral health outcomes
- Work with people and the community to identify and address health literacy and oral health promotion needs
- Examine teaching methodologies and their application to health education
- Apply culturally sensitive approaches in promoting oral health
- Apply health education and health promotion theory to oral health promotion
- Critically appraise oral health education and oral health promotion interventions
- Critique the role of ethics, policy and legislation in relation to the practice of oral health therapy
- Apply ethical principles to oral health therapy practice and research
- Investigate the role of oral health therapists as part of interprofessional teams
- Design and deliver evidence-based oral health education and promotion interventions
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: 4 March 2025
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Written Assignment (Health Education)
| Early first half of year teaching period | 10% |
Group oral presentation (Health Promotion Principles) in groups of 4 students
| Early first half of year teaching period | 10% |
Written Assignment (Health Education)
| First half of teaching period | 15% |
Written Assignment (Health Promotion Principles)
| First half of teaching period | 15% |
Written assignment - group lesson plan (Applied Health Education) in groups of 4 students
| Early second half of year teaching period | 5% |
Written Assignment (Ethical Practice and Research)
| Second half of teaching period | 15% |
Written report (Applied Health Education)
| Second half of teaching period | 25% |
Written plan (Ethical Practice and Research)
| End of year examination period | 5% |
| Hurdle requirement: All assessment tasks must be submitted. For the purposes of meeting this hurdle requirement, each submitted assessment must be complete and constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. Submitting only part of an assessment (e.g. only the title page) or an assessment on an irrelevant topic will not meet this hurdle requirement. | N/A |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Year Long
Principal coordinator Claire Mustchin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 80 hours Total time commitment 340 hours Pre teaching start date 31 January 2025 Pre teaching requirements Attend Orientation activities. Teaching period 3 February 2025 to 26 October 2025 Last self-enrol date 7 February 2025 Census date 2 June 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 September 2025 Assessment period ends 21 November 2025 Year Long contact information
Claire Mustchin
Time commitment details
Time Commitment 340 hrs consisting of:· 3.5hrs teaching activities per week (20 weeks) 7 hours of work integrated learning over 2 weeks in the teaching period. 6.5 hrs per week self-directed learning including private study, reading published studies, reference materials and textbooks (130 hours total) 130 hrs of assessment preparation and performance
What do these dates mean
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
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- Related Handbook entries
Last updated: 4 March 2025