Overview

This unit gives students an in-depth understanding of how organisations, leadership, and innovation can be used to build capacity for health promotion. Students will learn innovative health promotion approaches to address real-world problems. Students will learn how to find and use evidence to formulate a health promotion plan to support the physical, social, and emotional health and wellbeing of a population group.

Requisites

Prerequisites
HEA30010 Leadership and Innovation in Health Promotion

Rule

100 credit points

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Explain organisational/development, leadership, and change management theories used in health promotion
  • Examine organisational systems and structures across different settings and sectors
  • Critically evaluate health promotion interventions to promote health, wellbeing and inclusion
  • Obtain and interpret data to select appropriate health promotion strategies to address current and emerging health issues

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Various		4.50 12 weeks 54
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		5.00 12 weeks 60
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssessmentIndividual 40% 1,3,4 
In-Class PresentationGroup 20% 1,2,3,4 
Preliminary PlanIndividual 40% 2,3,4 

Content

  • Health promotion planning models
  • Innovation in health promotion
  • Capacity building
  • Organisational systems and structures and organisational development
  • Conducting a needs assessment by collecting, analysing, and using qualitative and quantitative data
  • Using evidence to select health promotion strategies
  • Change management theories
  • Principles of effective leadership
  • Team and project management skills
  • Graduate Attribute 1 (Communication 1 - Verbal Communication)
  • Graduate Attribute 2 (Communication 2 - Communicating using different media)
  • Graduate Attribute 3 (Teamwork 1 - Collaboration and negotiation)
  • Graduate Attribute 4 (Teamwork 2 - Teamwork roles and processes)
  • Graduate Attribute 5 (Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy)
  • Graduate Attribute 6 (Digital Literacies 2 - Technical literacy)

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.