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
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 - 2027
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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
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.
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
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 .
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
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.
Consideration of weekly content breakdown.
Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report
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.
Assessments will be reviewed for the next offering.