HLTH12028 - Health Promotion Strategies

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit builds on the student's understanding of health promotion by focusing on best practice strategies. These strategies will cover a range of circumstances and settings, including brief individual interventions to the development of national health promotion policy. It is recognised that effective health promotion initiatives generally use a combination of strategies and skills that are founded on theory and research.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites Students enrolled in CC59 Bachelor of Public Health (Specialisation) or CC4 Associate Degree in Public Health (Specialisation) are not permitted to enrol in this unit.

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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Online
Rockhampton
Townsville

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 40%
2. Online Quiz(zes) 20%
3. Written Assessment 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 46.15% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18.84% response rate.

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.

Source: Unit coordinator reflection.
Feedback
Students are not grasping the basic concepts required to complete Assessment 3.
Recommendation
Add a note to the assessment description that all unit modules must be completed to understand the concepts covered in Assessment 3. Advise students that these modules have been condensed to allow faster completion.
Action Taken
In 2025, the recommendation to emphasise completion of all unit modules before attempting Assessment 3 was implemented by adding explicit guidance within the assessment instructions and reinforcing this message during online announcements and class discussions.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection.
Feedback
Students lack basic academic literacy skills, particularly in research and evidence-based discussion. This is despite the majority being in the second or third year of their course.
Recommendation
Provide students with the opportunity to review short academic literacy session recordings that cover research and writing skills from one of the first-year Public Health units (Foundations of Health).
Action Taken
For the recommendation to strengthen students’ academic literacy, the unit placed greater emphasis on evidence use within recorded online classes. Across the term, discussions were integrated into these sessions to guide students on how to locate, evaluate, and apply research evidence in their assessments. This approach ensured that literacy skill development was embedded directly into the teaching and assessment context, rather than provided as optional supplementary recordings.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
More flexible timetabling of online classes to encourage higher attendance.
Recommendation
As many students are out on placement during T2, a more flexible rolling schedule of online classes will be added to help students attend more of the live sessions.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Students also identified areas for improvement, particularly around the clarity of assessment expectations, and the timing of Moodle coursework across the term.
Recommendation
Based on this feedback, improvements will be introduced for the next offering of the unit, including: Assessment instructions and marking criteria will be refined to provide clearer expectations. This includes annotated exemplars, improved scaffolding, and more explicit explanations of what constitutes higher‑level responses. Improved pacing of workload: Weekly Moodle content and assessment timelines will be reviewed to ensure a more even distribution of workload and to reduce pressure points later in the term.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Evaluate the principles underlying best practice in health promotion in relation to strategies
  2. Distinguish between various health promotion strategies
  3. Locate, critically evaluate and utilise information in the development of effective health promotion strategies
  4. Recommend culturally appropriate strategies to be applied in a variety of settings, including schools, workplaces, health service organisations and entire communities
  5. Argue the most appropriate strategy, or mix of strategies, for addressing a health related issue, including mental, emotional, social or physical health issues
  6. Determine the most appropriate methods, policies and resources to support the planning and implementation of health promotion strategies.


Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
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