Postgraduate: Course rule and topic information

Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion

(GradCertHlthProm)

INTRODUCTION

The Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion is an 18-unit program offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences on a Commonwealth Supported basis.

The program can be undertaken full-time in one semester subject to availability of the relevant topics. It can also be undertaken part-time in two to four consecutive semesters.

COURSE AIMS

The Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to incorporate the principles of primary health care in order to reduce inequalities in health care access and health outcomes.

In Australia these principles include:

• maximising consumer and community participation to enable individuals and communities to be better informed and to be involved in health care decisions;
• encouraging partnerships between health and non-health sectors to ensure full use of resources;
• fostering self-management and self-reliance to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in individuals, groups and communities; and
• promoting health and disease prevention to attain and sustain good health and well-being.

Students completing the Graduate Certificate should be able to:

• analyse theoretical concepts relevant to the determinants of health and well-being;
• understand the relevance of models of primary health care in a range of real world and workplace problems;
• appreciate the benefits of multi-disciplinary approaches in health and human services to promoting and improving health;
• apply principles of health promotion to clinical or community practice.

COURSE RULE

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification and have their candidature approved by the Faculty Board. However, the Board may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature. Such applicants must attach to their application a 500 word statement detailing their reasons for seeking admission to the course, their relevant primary health care experience, and the value of the qualification to their clients and/or organisation.

The Graduate Certificate articulates with the Graduate Diploma in Primary Health Care and/or Master of Public Health program and credit is normally given for appropriate topics completed in the graduate certificates.

PROGRAM OF STUDY [November, 2007]

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.

Core Topic

PHCA8918

Health Promotion: Integrating into Practice

6

And two topics (12 units) from the following*:

PHCA8001	Social Determinants of Health and Well-being	6
PHCA8917	Evaluation in Public Health	6
PHCA8922	Childhood and Public Health	6

* With the permission of the Course Coordinator, students may be permitted to undertake other appropriate topics as electives.

Except with permission of the Faculty Board:

• the program must be completed within four consecutive semesters. A lesser period may be set for students granted credit for previous studies; and
• no topic may be attempted more than twice.

The award of a grade of Fail (F) in 18 units or more, or the award of a grade of Fail (F) in the same topic on more than one occasion, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.