School Of Health SciencesHealth Policy and AdvocacyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 401390.1
Discipline: HEALTH PROMOTION
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
400966 - Health Politics, Policy and Planning, 400273 - Health Politics, Policy and Planning, 401195 - Health Politics, Policy and Planning
Prerequisite
401398 Public Health OR 401392 Health Promotion Theory and Approaches
About this Unit
Health professionals work in a complex sector governed by policy on population health and healthcare. This unit considers the role of policy in international and national healthcare. It examines policy making as both a rational and linear process responding to population health needs in just and fair ways, and the reality of policy making which occurs within a complex socio-political and economic environment shaped by powerful groups. Therefore, the aim of this unit is to consider how health professionals can develop effective evidence-based policy and the role advocacy can play in the health policy arena to engender greater health equity.
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