MPH5002 Foundations of health promotion and program planning
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
MPH5002 Foundations of health promotion and program planning is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2025 in Semester 1 at Alfred Hospital. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 1
- Alfred Hospital
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before MPH5002
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After MPH5002
No unit lists MPH5002 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
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Overview
This unit introduces you to key principles of, and planning for, health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health.
You will also develop skills in needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Alfred Hospital | Bld blk |
Assessment
- Essay (900 words)Written15%
- Report (1,800 words)Written30%
- Health promotion program plan (2,100 words)Written35%
- Health promotion and resource rationale (1,200 words)Artefact20%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Define and explain the history of preventive health and health promotion
- 2
Identify and apply the key principles, theories and frameworks, used in health promotion and prevention.
- 3
Critically reflect on the role of Health Promotion in addressing contemporary and emerging challenges in health.
- 4
Identify and adapt a range of approaches for promoting health that include upstream, mid-stream and downstream actions.
- 5
Describe and apply the key steps of program planning including needs analysis, participation and the development of goals, objectives and strategies
Workload and teaching
- Workshops16 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
6 hours of teacher-directed learning activities per week, and 6 hours of self-directed study per week. There is an expectation that students will attend 3 on-campus Block Days incorporating 23 contact hours.
For full details of the teaching approach to this unit, please refer to Moodle.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Ms Holly Wild
- Chief Examiners
- Ms Holly Wild
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for MPH5002?
MPH5002 has no prerequisites.
When is MPH5002 offered?
In 2025, MPH5002 runs in Semester 1 at Alfred Hospital.
Does MPH5002 have an exam?
No. MPH5002 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.