Community Health and Disease Prevention

I am your Lecturer, please feel free to contact me:

• Email: hannah.wechkunanukul@laureate.edu.au

• In person consultation: After 3.00 pm on Wednesday and Thursday

• Other times by appointment, please email me to arrange a time.

Dr Hannah Wechkunanukul

• PhD (Cardiovascular Disease) • Master of Health Administration • Master of Pharmacy • GradDiploma in Public health (Primary Health Care) • Bachelor of Pharmacy • Diploma in Hospitality Management • Certificate of Teaching in Tertiary Level

• There are 6 modules in the course, and each run for two weeks.

• There are required reading and videos for each module.

• There are 4 assessments, please check details and due dates.

• Make yourself familiar with the ‘Black Board’ system: • Course guide • Lecture materials • Learning resources • TUA policies including academic integrity • Course Participation

• Lecture: Wednesday, 8.00-11.00 am at Room G1

House Keeping

• Tutorials are mandatory for student on campus.

• Attendance and participation is graded (20%).

• If you cannot attend, please let your lecture know in advance ASAP (preferred option) or shortly afterwards.

• Please read the introduction and complete any required reading or activities for each module before the class.

• Please arrive on time so as not to disrupt the class and show respect to your classmates

Your expectations?

Class expectations

Respectful communication: • Take interest in the views/experiences of others

• Acknowledge differences of opinion in good spirit

• Avoid being dismissive of others’ contribution

• No personal insults

• Respect boundaries: Avoid sharing sensitive information

• Anything else?

Participation Ground Rules

Class Rules

• Please be on time, 5-minute rule • No phone or online communications please • One speaker at the time • Drinks & coffee or small snack is OK, no meal • Human always make some mistakes

Class Schedule

Day: Wednesday, 19 February – Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Time: 8.00 – 11.00 (3 hours including breaks)

Activities: relevant to content of each module

• Recap and questions from the previous tutorial

• Main content and activities/discussion

• Break 10-15 minutes

• Summary of the week and questions

• Individual consultations/discussion on assessment/other issues

• Class schedule is subject to change to suit each module and needs

Course Overview

Module We are going to explore… Week

1 Community Health: Working with and Principles of Community Capacity Building

1 - 2

2 Communicating with Communities: Theories and Models of Health Promotion

3 - 4

3 Disease Prevention: communicable and non- communicable diseases

5 - 6

4 Disease Prevention: Behaviour Change 7 - 8

5 Limiting the effects of disease, disability and injury 9 - 10

6 Health Emergency Preparedness and Response 11 - 12

Review the material on Blackboard – the online platform.

Assessment Assessment Title / Type Due Weight

1 of 4 Essay - Working with Communities End of Week 5 (Sun 22 Mar) 35%

(2,000 words)

2 of 4 Group Presentation - Non-communicable disease prevention

Week 10 (Sun 26 Apr) 25%

3 of 4 Plan - Emergency Response End of Week 12 (Sun 10 May) 30%

(1,500 words)

4 of 4 Discussion Forum - Participation in online forums

Part A: Before Week 6

Part B: Before Week 12

10% (1,000 words)

Assignments

YOU are responsible for:

• Submit your assignment by the due date.

• Obtaining any extensions from your lecturer on campus, at least three days before the due date.

• You need to provide a reasonable justification for needing an extension.

• You may need a medical certificate, if you are unwell.

• Or a detailed email with your situation.

• Assignments submitted after the due date will accrue a penalty of 10% per day late.

Assignment Expectations

• Click on Assessment tab in Black Board.

• If you have more than one version of your assignment on your computer, please make sure you submit the correct version.

• Please use the file saving conventions in naming your files.

subj code_M#_surname_first name initial_assessment titl

E.g. PUBH6006_M3_Jones_S_Working with community

• This is your responsibility; resubmissions based on submitting the wrong version will not be permitted

Assignment submission

In academic work you must acknowledge the source of ideas that you talk about – this is referred to as ‘Referencing’

At Torrens University Australia, we use APA style referencing

Library referencing resources: http://library.laureate.net.au/research_skills/referencing

Referencing

What is Plagiarism? • When you copy what someone has written word for word, as though it is your

own work

• When you take someone’s ideas and put them forward as your own ideas without acknowledging them

• When you write something word for word, and then use a thesaurus to change some specific words

Academic integrity policy: https://laureate- au.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/institution/Groupwide/Policy%20and%20Procedures/TUA%20Policies%20and%20Procedures/TUA% 20PL_AC_001%20Academic%20Integrity%20Policy.pdf

Academic integrity

• Avoid plagiarising by referencing other people’s ideas appropriately • Library resources:

http://library.laureate.net.au/research_skills/referencing

• Learning support academic: There are a team of learning support staff at each campus.

• Adelaide: Andrea Rivett (arivett@laureate.net.au)

Academic integrity support

Please spend a good time on Academic Skills Further Support slides (Announcement area on Black Board)

Success Coach

Please spend some time on Academic Skills Further Support slides (Announcement area on Black Board)

Learning Resources Centre Torrens University Australia’s Learning Resource Centre provides students with the support and resources needed for academic success. To learn more about what the Learning Resource Centre can do to assist you, visit http://onlinelibrary.tua.edu.au/library

Public Health Library Resources page This library site provides resources related to Public Health, including all the journals, books and databases TUA has access to. You can access this site here: http://onlinelibrary.tua.edu.au/pubhealth

Access to Learning Resources

Learning Support Workshops • Academic Skills Workshops (online) • Learning Support Team Workshops (Adelaide based students) • Library Skills Workshop (online)

Course Overview

Community Health and Diseases Prevention

• Understanding social, behavioural and cultural factors (Social Determinants of Health) affecting population health outcomes.

• Exploring, analysing and applying the current and emerging theoretical and conceptual health promotion frameworks to design intervention strategies and/or program initiatives that address current public health issues.

Module 1 Overview

Week 1 & 2

• Concept of Community • Concept of Health • Community Capacity

Building

• Community Empowerment • Further resources

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What we know about ‘community health’?

Community

Community is a group of people who have common characteristics and communities can be defined by location, age, occupation, interests, culture or other common features they share together. McKenzie, J., Pinger, R., & Kotecki, J. E. (2011). An introduction to community health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Examples of community!

Concept of Community

Communities are comprised of people who share: • Common geography • Common culture, values, beliefs or interests – social systems • Dynamic social interactions that forge relationships and leads

to trust

• Common sense of identity and belongings • Common needs, priorities, concern, commitment and action • Mutual influences • Emotional connections

See Laverack (2007) Chapter 2: Communities and community-based interactions

Share your perspective

Take a few moments to reflect on a group or community with which you are involved. • What does community mean to them? • What makes them to feel a community? • What strengths and assets are existed in that community? • What are the emerging challenges or barriers that this particular community is facing? • What factors would enable them to participate in health promoting programmes?

Concept of Health

Common Views of Health • Medical View • Cultural View • Social View • Socio-ecological View • Holistic View

In different community context,

the meaning of health is different

as there are different values and belief system.

Community Health

Community Health refers to the health status of a defined groups of populations and the actions and conditions to promote, protect and preserve their health.

Health of community you know!

Factors affecting the health of community

Health

Social, Economic

and Cultural Factors

Community Factors

Individual Factors

Physical Factors

Questions for Reflection

• Consider the community you are part of or a community you worked with and ask what does health mean to that particular community.

• Analyze your responses to explore which view of health aligns with their meaning and why?

Concept of Empowerment

• Empowerment is the process by which people work together to increase control over events that influence their life.

• Empowerment operates in three different levels; • Individual • Organizational • Community

See Leverack 2007, Health Promotion Practice, Page 13-15, for more details

Community Empowerment

Community empowerment, participation, development and capacity

See Laverack (2007) Chapter 2: Communities and community-based interactions p.20

Community Based Interactions

Different Relationships – Community has different structure, relationships and agency

Different Levels of Interactions – Different structure, relationships and agencies require various forms of interactions

Different Influences – Different forms and levels of interactions influence the empowerment process

Capacity Building

Means and Ends Dialogue

Capacity Building as the Means for Effective Programs and Sustainability and as the End for Strengthened Community Action

Community capacity is not an inherent property of a particular locality, or of the individuals or groups within it, but of the interactions between both. It is also a function of the resource opportunities or constraints (economic, political and environmental) of the conditions in which people and groups live.

See Labonte, R. & Laverack, G. (2001a). Capacity building in health promotion, Part 1: For whom? And for what purpose? Critical Public Health 11(2), 111-128.

Levels of Capacity Building

https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/~/.../capacity_building_factsheet.pdf

Question for Reflection

Think about a program which has created different level of capacity building outcomes.

You can share about this program via discussion forum.

We will discuss more in this topic next week.

Discussion Forum – Week 1

Defining and Working with Communities Reflect on the definition of a ‘community’ by Zakus and Lysack (1998) and the

summary by Laverack (2007, Chapter 2). Consider the diversity of individuals and groups within a geographical area such as your neighbourhood, what problems might the neighbourhood’s diversity create in the representation of the community’s members in health programs?

Consider Laverack’s ladder of community-based interaction (2007, Chapter 2) and with this in mind describe the key steps you have taken or would take and how you may approach, what you consider the best points of entry for practitioners working with communities and how might this affect the success of a program?