Overview
In this unit you will examine the numerous social complexities that exist in the delivery of healthcare and how those complexities impact practice. You will examine different perspectives on health and their influence on decision making, and then discuss ways to balance personal views with available scientific evidence and rationale. You will also study factors that affect the health outcomes of the individual as they apply to your obligation to deliver evidence-based, patient-centred health care.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2022
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE
A student felt that the unit would be more suited to a graded unit as opposed to a non-graded pass/fail unit.
It is recommended that the chiropractic discipline discuss and consider the possibility of this change.
Feedback from Verbal feedback
Students appreciated using cases that had been through AHPRA as learning tools.
It is recommended that the unit coordinator continue to source real world cases that can be used as learning tools.
- Provide a balanced judgement of philosophical drivers and scientific rationale in health care decision making
- Make informed decisions in patient management
- Recommend appropriate healthcare advice which considers the ethics associated with a limitation of knowledge/evidence, potential conflicts of interest, cultural, social and other differences which may impact an individual’s health outcomes.
LO1 links to CCEA Competency Element 1.2 Public Health Concepts with the Performance Indicators: Understanding of health problems during special life periods including ageing, paediatrics and adolescence; recognition of the role that chiropractors can play in overall public health practice, including public hospitals; understanding the special areas of women’s and men’s health and the cultural aspects of public health; and understanding the concept of increasing the patient’s responsibility for his/her own health care.
LO2 links to (a) CCEA Competency Element 11.1 Develops a personal ability to seek out and apply scientific information with the Performance Indicators: Ability to critically appraise the literature and apply evidence-based problem solving in practice; understand the on-going necessity for continuing education; demonstrate communication skills, an ability to speak in public and give a case presentation with an adequate literature review; and show an understanding of research methods and their significance in modern health care; and (b) to CCEA Competency Element 3.1 Awareness of professional ethos, organisation and history with the Performance Indicators: Is aware of the profession’s special characteristics, aspirations and strengths; is aware of the profession’s organisations locally, nationally and internationally; and of its relations to other professions and organisations, e.g WHO; is aware of the major historical mile posts of the profession, both locally and internationally.
LO3 links to CCEA Competency Element 3.2 Awareness of professionalism with the Performance Indicators: Assesses personal standards of practice; and recognises the need for self-directedness in further and continuing education to extend knowledge and refine skills.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Portfolio - 0% | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 0% | |||
| 3 - Presentation - 0% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | |||
| 2 - Communication | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | |||
| 4 - Research | |||
| 5 - Self-management | |||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | |||
| 7 - Leadership | |||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Portfolio - 0% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 0% | ||||||||
| 3 - Presentation - 0% | ||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Vancouver
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
k.deluca@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lecture: Introduction to SPOH
Online tutorial: Introduction to SPOH and course outline
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Does Chiropractic have a role to play?
Online tutorial: Chiropractic Board of Australia presentation to final year students
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Cultural Safety, and cultural and religious perspectives on health
Online tutorial: Interview with Indigenous Australian, Quinton
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Building a safety culture in Chiropractic
Online tutorial: SafetyNET
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Social media and healthcare
Online tutorial: Social media and healthcare
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Healthy ageing and ageism
Online tutorial: Healthy ageing
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Social demographics and health
Online tutorial: Lifestyle medicine
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Health promotion
Online tutorial: Health promotion
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 1 - Clinical reflection due. This should be saved as a PDF file and uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 13th January, 2023.
Reflection Due: Week 8 Friday (13 Jan 2023) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Lecture: Drivers of Evidence Based Chiropractic
Online tutorial: Evidence Based Chiropractic
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Process and corporate strategies in healthcare
Online tutorial: Process and corporate strategies in healthcare
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 2 - Literature review and infographic due. Two PDF files (literature review and infographic) should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023.
Assessment 3 - Health media item. A PDF of the summary item should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023.
LITERATURE REVIEW AND INFOGRAPHIC Due: Week 10 Friday (27 Jan 2023) 5:00 pm AEST
HEALTH MEDIA ITEM Due: Week 10 Friday (27 Jan 2023) 10:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Lecture: Global Burden of Disease
Online tutorial: Health media presentations
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 3 - Health media item.
You will present your health media item during online tutorials on Fridays in weeks 11 and 12. Your health media item should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 3rd February, 2023.
Module/Topic
Lecture: Rural, regional and remote health
Online tutorial: Health media presentations
Chapter
Relevant material will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 3 - Health media item.
You will present your health media item during online tutorials on Fridays in weeks 11 and 12. Your health media item should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 3rd February, 2023.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
This term (T3, 2022) CHIR20019 will be delivered during the vacation week (currently identified on the calendar as the week between weeks 4 and 5).
We will be taking the week identified on the academic calendar as week 6 (the week running up to Christmas) as our vacation week.
This means you will have a two week break during the term, over the Christmas period.
1 Portfolio
As you work through the content of this unit and begin to understand the expectations placed upon a healthcare professional to provide ethical, inclusive and appropriate care for a wide range of patients coming to the clinic, you will take the opportunity to reflect on preparing yourself for these encounters. This reflection will require you to explore where you currently stand in relation to your knowledge and skills when dealing with diverse clinical scenarios.
Firstly, select a diverse clinical scenario for illustration. Examples include ethical practices, patient safety, business models, tele-health, socio-demographic and cultural factors, ageism, health promotion, or risky health behaviours. You will then develop and describe an action plan that includes overcoming barriers and facilitating ethical, inclusive and appropriate care for patients in this scenario. Support your plan with evidence and discuss how your new knowledge may be applied during your clinical internship.
This item should be ~500 words +/- 10%, formatted in arial font with 1.5 spacing and referenced (Vancouver, not part of the word count). This item should be saved as a PDF file and uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 13th January, 2023 (Week 8).
Week 8 Friday (13 Jan 2023) 5:00 pm AEST
A PDF file should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 13th January, 2023 (Week 8).
Week 9 Friday (20 Jan 2023)
Students notified via Moodle
This is a Pass/Fail assessment. This item should be ~500 words +/- 10%, formatted in arial font with 1.5 spacing and referenced (Vancouver, not part of the word count). In week 8 you will upload your reflection, saved as a PDF file, to Moodle to pass this unit.
- Provide a balanced judgement of philosophical drivers and scientific rationale in health care decision making
- Make informed decisions in patient management
- Recommend appropriate healthcare advice which considers the ethics associated with a limitation of knowledge/evidence, potential conflicts of interest, cultural, social and other differences which may impact an individual’s health outcomes.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
In this assessment, you will select a topic related to the social perspectives of health unit including, but not limited to, cultural perspectives, patient safety, health promotion, healthy ageing, rural and regional health inequities, the burden of diseases, and/or social determinants of health.
Firstly, you will undertake a literature review on your chosen topic and select a peer-reviewed publication for synthesis. The document should include the topic title, research question, search strategy and paper selection. This item should be ~500 words +/- 10%, formatted in arial font with 1.5 spacing and referenced (not part of the word count). This item should be saved as a PDF file and uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023 (Week 10).
Secondly, you will create a one-page, single sided (A4 size) infographic based upon your selected peer-reviewed publication on the topic of your choice. The infographic should be created with the specific aim to be used in the outpatient clinic as either a patient or clinician resource. For this item, you will reflect on how this evidence will help you prepare yourself for encounters during clinic internship. This item should also be saved as a PDF file and uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023 (Week 10).
Week 10 Friday (27 Jan 2023) 5:00 pm AEST
Two PDF files (literature review and infographic) should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January (Week 10).
Week 12 Friday (10 Feb 2023)
Students notified via Moodle
This is a Pass/Fail assessment. In week 10 you will upload two PDF files (literature review and infographic), to Moodle to pass this unit.
- Provide a balanced judgement of philosophical drivers and scientific rationale in health care decision making
- Make informed decisions in patient management
- Recommend appropriate healthcare advice which considers the ethics associated with a limitation of knowledge/evidence, potential conflicts of interest, cultural, social and other differences which may impact an individual’s health outcomes.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
3 Presentation
This assessment will see you develop a social or mass media item related to social perspectives of health including, but not limited to, cultural perspectives, patient safety, health promotion, healthy ageing, rural and regional health inequities, the burden of diseases, and/or social determinants of health. This assessment piece may be used as a patient or community educational tool. In keeping with this, it is important that the piece is thoughtfully written with a target audience in mind. This means that you will consider the wider context and realities faced by the group that you will be focusing on.
If you select a (written) social media item it should be 350 words +/- 10%. If you select a (recorded) mass media item it should be no longer than 90 seconds. This item should be uploaded to Moodle no later than 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023 (Week 12).
You will also submit an explanation of your social/mass media item. This summary should identify how you have searched for evidence and applied new information to ensure that you engaged with your target audience and the likely/possible long term impacts of your health media item. Please also discuss the strengths and limitations of social/mass media in the health setting. This item should be ~500 words +/- 10%, formatted in arial font with 1.5 spacing. This should be saved as a PDF file and uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023 (Week 10).
Week 10 Friday (27 Jan 2023) 10:00 am AEST
A PDF file of your summary should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023 (Week 10). You will present your health media item during the online tutorial (Friday) in weeks 11 and 12.
Exam Week Friday (17 Feb 2023)
Students notified via Moodle
This is a Pass/Fail assessment. A PDF file of your summary should be uploaded to Moodle by 5pm on Friday 27th January, 2023 (Week 10). You will present your health media item during the online tutorial (Friday) in weeks 11 and 12. After the presentation of your social/mass media item you must upload your social/mass media item to Moodle to pass this unit.
- Provide a balanced judgement of philosophical drivers and scientific rationale in health care decision making
- Make informed decisions in patient management
- Recommend appropriate healthcare advice which considers the ethics associated with a limitation of knowledge/evidence, potential conflicts of interest, cultural, social and other differences which may impact an individual’s health outcomes.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
