Overview
This unit will advance your knowledge of health promotion related to the enhancement of healthy ageing outcomes. You will gain a greater understanding of the theories of health promotion and their influence on contemporary policy and practice. You will critically appraise existing health promotion strategies to assess their adequacy to empower and enhance well-being in older people. Evidence-based research will be applied to judge the suitability of public health interventions and social marketing to influence and maximise quality of life. You will formulate recommendations to improve health promotion theories, strategies and interventions.
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 1 - 2019
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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 graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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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 DDLT and Dean SNMSS
Due to no enrolments, this unit is currently under review for sustainability. The current curriculum and learning content will be modified to aid the development of the new undergraduate program in Healthy Ageing for the Bachelor of Social Work (Honours).
The course and unit are currently under review for sustainability.
- Evaluate the relevance of health promotion theory to healthy ageing
- Evaluate the suitability of a current health promotion strategy to meet the needs of older people using evidence-based research
- Assess a current health promotion campaign related to healthy ageing and devise a health promotion plan to optimise well-being in older people.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 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
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||
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: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.holt2@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Welcome to HAGE 20005!
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Refer to Moodle site. Read introductory information.
Review Assessment requirements. Begin planning for Assessment 1.
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Module 1 - Introduction to Health Promotion
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Refer to Moodle site. Begin Module 1 activities.
Begin planning for Assessment 1.
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Module 1 - Introduction to Health Promotion
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Begin preparing for Assessment 1.
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Module 1 - Introduction to Health Promotion
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Continue working on Assessment 1.
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Module 2 - Health Promotion and Older populations
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Refer to Moodle site. Begin Module 2 activities.
Submit Assessment 1
Week 5: Assessment 1 due on Friday 12 April 2019 at 5.00pm (AEST)
Written Report (A) Health Education and Healthy Ageing Due: Week 5 Friday (12 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
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Enjoy your well deserved break!
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Module 2 - Health Promotion and Older populations
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Module 2 - Health Promotion and Older populations
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Module 3 - Healthy Ageing Policy and Health Promotion
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Begin preparing for Assessment 2.
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Module 3 - Healthy Ageing Policy and Health Promotion
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Begin preparing for Assessment 2.
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Module 3 - Healthy Ageing Policy and Health Promotion
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Module 3 - Healthy Ageing Policy and Health Promotion
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Module 4 - Health Promotion and Ageing in the context of Professional Practic
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Submit Assessment 1
Week 11: Assessment 1 due on Friday 31 May 2019 at 5.00pm (AEST)
Written Report (B) - Healthy Ageing Policy Due: Week 11 Friday (31 May 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
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Module 4 - Module 4 - Health Promotion and Ageing in the context of Professional Practice
Review and Consolidation
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1 Written Assessment
Health Promotion focuses on preventing disease and ill-health, promoting health and wellbeing and prolonging life. It overwhelmingly has direct implications on quality of life and life expectancy. There are many opportunities for health promotion practice that target older people in many different settings and places.
Three key areas: (1) physical activity; (2) nutrition; along with (3) mental health and wellbeing have an overwhelming impact on how well people age, and are the ‘cornerstone’ to preventing, promoting and prolonging a high quality of life as a person ages.
For this assessment you are required to:
1.0 Choose an area of focus: Physical Activity, Nutrition or Mental Health and Wellbeing
2.0 Describe the health effects of the ‘area of focus’ in terms of risk factor reduction and as a protective factor in preventing premature mortality and morbidity in older people. Be sure to address how it improves health outcomes at a population -level too.
3.0 Primary Prevention - Choose a community-based health promotion program that targets older people. In this section you should describe ONE program based on your area of focus (physical activity, nutrition or mental health and wellbeing) that has been used to prevent a health issue in older people. It must be based on a ‘health education’ approach that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of older people. Find a specific program that has been implemented and evaluated (i.e. has been tested to see if it has been successful in some way). You may use government or organisational websites for this section. Describe the features of the program and what impact it has on the health of older people in terms of reducing premature mortality and morbidity.
4.0 Select ONE of the ‘Action Areas’ from the Ottawa Charter (WHO 1986) that aligns itself with your program to discuss (i.e. is it developing ‘personal skills’ and how?)
5.0 Conclude by reiterating why this health issue in older people needs action, in terms of population ageing and health promotion ‘action’.
This assessment relates to learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3 in the unit profile.
Word Count: 2000 (+/- 10% excluding references)
The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. It excludes the cover page, abstract, contents page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Due date: Week 5 (Friday 12.04.19 - 5.00pm AEST)
Total percentage – 50% of overall mark
Week 5 Friday (12 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
via Turnitin on Moodle site
Week 6 Friday (26 Apr 2019)
via Moodle site
Please refer to Moodle site for Assessment Rubric
- Evaluate the relevance of health promotion theory to healthy ageing
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Leadership
2 Written Assessment
For this assessment you are required to:
1.0 Choose ONE of the social determinants of health (SDOH) that is directly related to the health of older people.
2.0 Choose a specific health issue directly related to ageing. You may decide to focus on older Indigenous Australians or older non-Indigenous Australians as your target population.
3.0 Describe ONE policy/law that could be used to prevent this health issue from occurring in older people. Critically evaluate how this policy/law improves the health and well-being of older people. Describe the features of the policy/law that have influence on risk factor reduction.
4.0 Establish the link between the SDoH you have selected, and its implication on the policy/law you have chosen and population ageing.
5.0 Conclude by reiterating why this health issue in older people needs action, in terms of population ageing and health promotion ‘action’.
This assessment relates to learning outcome 4 in the unit profile.
Word count: 2000 (+/- 10% excluding references)
The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. It excludes the cover page, abstract, contents page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Due date: Week 11 (31.05.19 -5.00pm AEST)
Total percentage – 50% of overall mark
Week 11 Friday (31 May 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
via Turnitin on Moodle site
Review/Exam Week Friday (14 June 2019)
via Moodle site
Please refer to Moodle site for Assessment Rubric
- Evaluate the suitability of a current health promotion strategy to meet the needs of older people using evidence-based research
- Assess a current health promotion campaign related to healthy ageing and devise a health promotion plan to optimise well-being in older people.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
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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.
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