PUB252 Health Promotion Community Assessment and Planning

Description

The goal of this task is to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in evidence-based health promotion planning to address a health and wellbeing priority in a community. 

You will produce a written health promotion project plan (approx. 1500 words). 

Format

• Individually you will develop a health promotion plan to address your community health and wellbeing priority. The plan will be based and draw on the health and wellbeing priority analysis (and related evidence) presented in Task 2.
• You will use the evidence to:
  • describe the impact of the health and wellbeing issue on your community/population;
  • develop and provide justification for the goal, objectives and sub-objectives to address the health and wellbeing priority;
  • develop an evaluation plan for your health promotion program; and
  • apply best practice planning principles, i.e.
• You will be required to discuss your draft goal, objectives and sub-objectives and related evaluation with the Course Coordinator prior to submission of your final plan. Time will be made available, either in class or in separate Zoom meetings, to allow for this discussion.
• Use Vancouver-JAMA style referencing.
• Further details on how to approach and structure the health promotion plan will be made available on Canvas.

We will also be practising the skills for this assessment and working through a Health Promotion Plan case example in the weeks 11 to 13.

Resources

A Health Promotion Project Plan template has been provided for you to complete this task. This template is in the Task resources on Canvas. Completing the template will ensure that you include all the required components of the plan.

The Health Promotion Project Plan builds on your Task 2 Health and wellbeing priority analysis. Specifically, you will use the health and wellbeing priority analysis, and convert it to a plan and develop a goal, one (1) objective and two (2) sub-objectives. You will provide a written justification for your goal, objective and sub-objectives based on the evidence. You will then develop an evaluation plan for your health promotion plan which will include evaluation indicators, the benchmarks or standards you are trying to achieve, the data type and methods, data collection tools, sample or sources of evaluation data, and the time-points for data collection. Again, you will provide a written justification for the elements of this evaluation plan, citing evidence to support the decisions you made. You will identify the partnerships that will be essential to the effectiveness of the health promotion program. 

You will also provide a background and context for your project and a summary of your health and wellbeing priority analysis from the Task 2 Health and wellbeing priority analysis. You can use your notes from your previous task to complete these sections. Make any amendments to the health priority analysis to ensure it is fully technically accurate, based on any feedback you received about the group presentation.

You will draw on the evidence that you used for Task 2 health priority analysis. You will also need to include additional references that you utilise to convert your health issue analysis to the plan.

Getting started

• Review your Task 2 health and wellbeing priority analysis and make any amendments necessary to ensure that it is technically accurate (take note of any feedback you received).
• Commence the completion of your Health promotion project plan template.
• You should be able to complete the Background and context, and Health and wellbeing priority analysis sections relatively easily. I suggest that you do not move onto subsequent components on the plan until you have completed these two sections.
• In Weeks ten (10) to twelve (12) we will focus on developing goals, objectives and sub-objectives including writing a justification for each and developing outcome and impact evaluation plans. While you can start these components of the task if you wish, you may need to review this work once you have participated in the weekly workshops.

TIPS for success

• Start now
• Do all the Week 10 through to week 13 independent learning activities. They have been designed to support you to prepare for this task.
• Be clear about the criteria you are being assessed on:
• Application of relevant health promotion planning frameworks and/or models, principles, and processes
• Appropriateness of evidence used throughout the plan
• Technical accuracy of the goal, objectives, sub-objectives
• Technical accuracy of the evaluation plan components
• Quality of the justification for the goal, objectives, sub-objectives, and impact and outcome evaluation
• Accuracy of the description of the health and wellbeing priority and community, and impact of the priority on the community.
• Work sequentially through the plan template.
• If you have questions post them to the Task 3 Discussion forum or ask the course coordinator – do not rely on your classmates or previous students for advice with this task to avoid receiving any inaccurate direction.
• Ensure that you work independently from your Task 2 health priority analysis group.
• Seek feedback from an academic skills adviser once you have your draft plan developed.