Health Administration (HADM) 336
Community Health Planning (Revision 2)
Revision 2 closed, replaced by current version.
Delivery Mode:Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits:3
Area of Study:Applied Studies
Prerequisite:HADM 339. Students without HADM 339 require professor approval.
Centre:Centre for State and Legal Studies
HADM 336 has a Challenge for Credit option.
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Overview
This course involves a systematic examination of the health status of the population: what are the common illnesses affecting the general population and how to minimize them through community action. This course examines the major communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases. It also examines food and nutrition, health care and the elderly, environmental health and occupational health and safety. It sums up with a community health planning model with strategies, program design, and target population.
Outline
The nine major topics in the course are:
- the health status of Canadians and the nature of health care in Canada.
- public health planning.
- communicable diseases.
- non-communicable diseases.
- food and nutrition.
- health care and the elderly.
- environmental health.
- occupational health.
- national public health issues in the twenty-first century.
Evaluation
To receive credit for HADM 336, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent), and a grade of at least 50 percent on the mail-in term paper. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:
| Telephone Quiz 1 (after Unit 2) | 10% |
| Tutor-marked Exercise 1 (after Unit 4) | 15% |
| Telephone Quiz 2 (after Unit 5) | 10% |
| Telephone Quiz 3 (after Unit 7) | 10% |
| Tutor-marked Exercise 2 (after Unit 9) | 15% |
| Mail-in Term Paper | 40% |
| Total | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbooks
Reagan, P. A. & Brookins-Fisher, J. (2002) Community Health in the 21st Century (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings.
Shah, C. P. (2003). Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada (5th ed.). Toronto: Elsevier.
Other Materials
The course materials also include a student manual, study guide, and a reading file.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 2, July 12, 2005.
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Last updated by SAS 09/10/2013 11:52:40
