Purpose:

• To explore the effects of social-political and cultural determinants of health and apply relevant knowledge to enhance the health of individuals, whanau/family, organizations, and communities.
• To examine the concepts of health promotion, health prevention, injury, and primary health in relation to the needs of individuals, whanau/family, organizations, and communities.
• To examine the governance structure, policy, legislation, and fiscal influences of health care services Aotearoa/New Zealand.
• To critique Ministry of health strategies, guidelines ad initiatives that impact individual groups within society.
• To engage in analytical and inquiry processes to develop as a community and/or organizational healthcare promotion professionals.

Graduate Profile Outcomes (GPO’s)

GPO1: Competently apply knowledge relevant to health issues to assist in the enhancement of the health of the individual, whanau/family, organizations, and communities.

GPO2: Critically assess ways in which sociocultural, economic, and physical environments are determinants of the health of the individual, whanau/family, organizations, and communities.

GPO4: Research, articulate, and apply knowledge and skills relevant to ethical and effective health promotion practice within their work context

Learning outcomes:

LO1: Identify socio-political and cultural determinants of health that affect individual, whanau/family, organizations, and communities and analyze the implications for healthcare outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand

LO2: Examine the principles and concepts of primary healthcare as they relate to the Aotearoa/New Zealand context

LO3: Analyse health promotion theories and frameworks for professional health practices to develop a theoretical health promotion project

Part 1: 

a. How do the socio-political and cultural determinants impact the health of individuals, whanau/family, organizations, and communities?

b. Identify and explain the socio-political and cultural health determinants that impact the health of three different cultural or ethnic groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand

c. Analyze the implications of the health determinants to the overall health outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Part 2: 

Analyze five principles of primary healthcare that relate to Aotearoa/New Zealand

Part 3: 

a. Develop a Health Promotion Project addressing one of the identified health challenges in New Zealand/Aotearoa. The project must clearly include vision, mission, background, challenges, and future plan.

b. Analyse the application of the Ottawa Charter as the global framework for the Health Promotion Project that you developed in part a.

c. Analyse underpinning theories of the developed Health Promotion Project.