NURS2001 Understanding People and the Healthcare Environment

This topic facilitates a broad understanding of health and healthcare from the perspective of the consumer and carers, with a focus on diversity and special needs, and challenges assumptions of 'normal'.

This topic aims to promote a broad understanding of health and healthcare from the perspectives of the general population, as well as users of health services and their families and carers.

The topic aims to enable students to understand the distribution of illness in the Australian population and methods to measure and intervene across primary and secondary prevention strategies.

1. Analyse ways in which a range of characteristics, such as age, gender, class, race, ethnicity and indigeneity, sexual preference, religion and spirituality, and their intersections, influence the health of people from priority population groups in Australia
2. Analyse and interpret population data and have a working knowledge of appropriate population data sources
3. Determine ways in which healthcare consumers (within population groups) access information to facilitate decision-making about their healthcare requirements
4. Appraise basic concepts of epidemiology and techniques used for health prevention and promotion in addressing the needs of individuals and communities from priority populations using research to support the discussion