Leadership and Innovation in Health Promotion
36 hours + Blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
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
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
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-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 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment | Individual | 40% | 1,3,4 |
| In-Class Presentation | Group | 20% | 1,2,3,4 |
| Preliminary Plan | Individual | 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.