Principles of Public Health Practice/What is public health and what have the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people taught us about the importance of explicit principles?/Tutorial Introduction

Information
ignments are submitted electronically via LMS (email your tutor if there is an issue with submission). When saving your assignments, please name them as follows: o	Example: PHE2PHP Student [NAME] Assignment 1, Tutor [NAME]
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 * Before you begin on group work please complete a group agreement. (Please see LMS for group agreement information which will be up shortly.) Please note that assignments will not be marked in a group where an agreement has not been completed and submitted to your tutor.  This is an issue of respect and equity (2 important public health principles)
 * Please ensure you complete your readings and tasks BEFORE tutorial
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Useful resources

 * Subject Guide on LMS https://lms.latrobe.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=211953
 * Survival Guide http://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/health/your-studies/academic-language-and-learning-all-unit

Part 1
Introduction to PHP:


 * Welcome to PHP; what it’s all about – an overview
 * Expectations; attendance, readings, LMS forum
 * Role of Students (individual and as part of team)
 * Learning outcomes
 * Assessment tasks

Walking around campus with ‘Public Health’ glasses

	In groups walk around campus looking for examples of public health in practice! What examples do you see? How many and how diverse are they? We will be entering these onto the LMS forum and by the end of the semester we will see how many examples we have found.

	Do you have an iPhone or Android? Take photos of as many examples of public health on campus with your smartphone. Then, upload your photos to Wikiversity (instructions to be provided) and add a one line description of why the image is an example of public health.

Part 2
Preparing for 1st assessment task – Individual Literature Analysis Task

We will spend some time discussing four main concepts in this subject. These are a) public health, b) primary care and primary health care, c) population health and d) health promotion. In your teams you will need to find resource materials, including peer reviewed articles that provide descriptions of these concepts and how they are applied and put into practice.

The common themes across all the above concepts are equity and participation. In teams, you will discuss these themes, their definitions, and how they relate to the four concepts.

You will need to consider the four concepts and two themes from various perspectives, including practitioner, consumer/patient, policy makers and community health groups. We have provided a few examples of resources below, but it is important for you to find others. You will be required to upload links to the resources you have found on Wikiversity.

Things to take into consideration when you are sourcing literature, such as the quality of the article or multimedia resource (i.e. it has to be credible): Who is the author, i.e. government official, medical doctor or health practitioner? As each will have a different view and may only advocate for their interest. Do they use good arguments or is it emotional pleading?

Key words to be alert for: Public health, health promotion, primary health care, primary care, population health, quality, evidence, policies, resources, equity, participation, capacity development, determinants, outcomes, processes, perspectives, inter-disciplinary, communities and consumers/patients.

Key interrogatives:

Who, what, where, when, how, why, in what manner?

Resource materials:

An example article on public health in rural areas:

Rural Public Health Capacity

A video clip of a graduate student’s insightful speech on public health:

A MPH graduate's understanding of public health

An article that will give you some useful strategies for completing your first assignment is “Turning a Stack of papers into a Literature Review”.

Turn a Stack of Papers Into a Literature Review

For next workshop: Find resource materials that develop your understanding of primary care versus primary health care. Find a minimum of two articles or multimedia materials, e.g. video clip explaining what primary care is about.

Please refer to LMS and Wikiversity for further information to assist you with the Critical Literature Review.