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HLTH12032 Community Needs Assessment
Community Needs Assessment
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General Information

Overview

At a global level, rising demands for health and social supports, constrained resources, and widening health inequalities have made community needs assessments an essential tool in public health practice. This unit introduces you to the principles and practices of community needs assessment, equipping you with the skills to identify populations in greatest need and to map the physical, economic, social, and cultural assets within communities. You will explore various types of needs assessments and their application in local contexts, with a particular focus on health promotion. Through critical examination of assessment methods and evaluation strategies, you will learn how to effectively plan, implement, and assess community-based initiatives that aim to maximise health equity and resource allocation.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 2
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 8
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

48-credit unit pre-requisite

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2026

Melbourne
Online

Attendance Requirements

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Class and Assessment Overview

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This information will be available on Monday 12 January 2026
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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

Feedback

Found the module and assessment contents to be too cluttered and made it confusing and worried most of the times. Some of the reading links didn't work. The assessment requirements were made a lot clearer by more concise information via separate announcements on Moodle from the coordinator who took over from week three.

Recommendation

The evaluation feedback indicates a need to refine the Moodle content and assessment information to enhance clarity and support student learning.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

Feedback

The unit needs to be completely restructured. The Moodle is hard to navigate due to the organisation of resources, I could never remember where anything was, it is not clear .

Recommendation

This suggests that a complete refresh of the unit is needed to provide clear, effective and easy-to-navigate resources to facilitate student engagement and learning.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

Feedback

Prefer the week by week content sections instead of the mixed weeks. The assessments were not clear and often confusing. Too much mixing of group work, solo work within the group work and working as a group but submitting separately.

Recommendation

Consideration of weekly content breakdown.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

Feedback

I think the group assessment needs some work. The roles don't really make sense for what the assignment is. It doesn't make sense to our group to have a writer role when everyone is writing their own assessment.

Recommendation

Assessments will be reviewed for the next offering.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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