Community health promotion

CHCEDU002 Plan health promotion and community intervention

This unit is about planing health promotion and community intervention. It applies to workers who are usually part of a professional team and under the guidance of a supervisor.

 

How you will be assessed

You will be assessed through:

• Assessor observation on the job
• Supervisor reference (if the assessor is not the supervisor)
• Review of your workplace documents (e.g. procedures)
• Interview/assignment based on the requirements below.

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Practical

You will be assessed in the workplace with suitable facilities, equipment and resources, and health promotion resources and health data, including epidemiological data.

You need to show that you have developed two health promotion and/or community intervention plans by:

1. using social research methods and epidemiological data to analyse health trends
2. interpreting data and identified key preventative health issues and target audiences
3. developing and applying a range of preventative health strategies to plan appropriate health promotion within the community

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Interview/assignment questions

1. Describe the main historical approaches to preventative health care.
2. Describe the main current approaches to preventative health care.
3. Describe your organization’s social research methods.
4. How is data relating to health issues collected and potentially used?
5. Describe the principles primary health care used in your organization.
6. Describe the range of health promotion resources and strategies used in your organization and useful to your job.
7. Based on the experiences of your organization, describe the range of obstacles to the uptake of delivered health promotion. In your answer, include culture/religion, age, and language.
8. What is the the funding and policy environment of your organization’s health promotion activities?
9. What strategies does your organization use to:
1. engage communities?
2. disseminate information?
10. How does your organization measure the effectives of preventative health care?

Note: Your assessor may also ask you a variety of what if questions.

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Detailed requirements

The skills in this unit must be applied according to Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.
 

1. Identify key issues in preventative health care

1. Use social research methods to analyse population health trends, demographic, social and epidemiological information and data
2. Identify key issues in preventative health for the community from data obtained
3. Identify current responses to preventative health care
4. Apply preventative health care strategies to develop solutions to community issues
5. Define target populations and determine consultation processes
6. Examine policy and funding contexts and issues

 

2. Work within the educational framework of health promotion

1. Integrate preventative health care perspective into community development and capacity building
2. Select and apply relevant strategies to health promotion in the community
3. Identify and plan required partnerships with stakeholders
4. Engage key stakeholders as focus group
5. Identify a range of techniques to engage community in health promotion activities
6. Define most appropriate methods for information dissemination to target population
7. Access and implement key resources for health promotion activities

 

3. Formalise plan of health promotion activities

1. Define key deliverables of health promotion/community intervention plan
2. Define timeline for health promotion/community intervention plan, noting key deliverables
3. Define contingencies if applicable
4. Allocate budget resources to key deliverables of plan
5. Develop an evaluation strategy
6. Write plan in line with organisational policies

 

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