Program Overview

Introduction to PUBH305 - Applied Public Health 2

PUBH305 - Applied Public Health 2 is a unit that provides students with the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge and experience in public health practice. This unit is the second part of a full-year professional placement where students are placed in organizations with established and successful public health activities.

Unit Details

• Year: 2021
• Credit Points: 10
• Campus Offering: No unit offerings are currently available for this unit.
• Prerequisites: PUBH302 Applied Public Health 1
• Teaching Organisation: 150 hours of focused learning

Unit Rationale, Description, and Aim

The aim of this unit is to provide students with the opportunity to critically analyze their work-integrated learning experiences in terms of both workplace dynamics and the broader aims and approaches of the Public Health sector. Through this experience, students gain substantial insight into the cultural, social, moral, ethical, economic, and environmental aspects that underpin the health and well-being of communities and individuals.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Analyse, evaluate, and link public health and health promotion theory to practice.
2. Reflect critically upon the values underpinning the relationships, roles, and functions of staff and clients within a community organisation.
3. Demonstrate progress towards meeting industry expectations of professional competency relevant to public health and health promotion.
4. Articulate a strategic, defined plan of career goals.

Graduate Attributes

• GA2: Recognise their responsibility to the common good, the environment, and society
• GA3: Apply ethical perspectives in informed decision making
• GA4: Think critically and reflectively
• GA5: Demonstrate values, knowledge, skills, and attitudes appropriate to the discipline and/or profession
• GA7: Work both autonomously and collaboratively

Content

Fieldwork will be organised in government and non-government health and/or community development organisations. Within the workplace, students will be allocated a series of tasks related to a specific project of relevance to public health or health promotion.

Learning and Teaching Strategy and Rationale

This unit is delivered primarily through a work-integrated learning framework, supplemented by face-to-face workshop sessions on campus. The unit uses an active learning approach where activities support students to acquire essential theoretical knowledge in public health practice relevant to the specific workplace of their placement.

Assessment Strategy and Rationale

A range of assessment procedures will be used to meet the unit learning outcomes and develop graduate attributes consistent with University assessment requirements. Assessment tasks include:

• Hurdle requirement: Host organisation supervisor authorised timesheet
• Assessment 1: Written Organisational Analysis
• Assessment 2: Essay Part 2
• Assessment 3: Presentation

Representative Texts and References

• Baum, Fran. 2016. The new public health. 4th ed. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
• Lin, V., Smith J., & Fawkes, S. (2007). Public health practice in Australia: the organised effort. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.
• Prilleltensky, I. & Prilleltensky, O. (2006). Promoting wellbeing: Linking personal, organization, and community change. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.