| Effective Term: | 2025/04 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Policy in Health Services Management |
| Unit ID: | BUHEA6902 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit builds skills in the politics and policies related to health services management. It primarily focuses on public policy but also draws on policy applicable globally as well as the students country of origin. Policy analysis includes both the process of identifying, structuring, and analysing information to design better policy within the health sector, and evaluation of existing policies. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
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| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | |  | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Review politics and policy and their relation to each other in health in Australia and other countries |
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| K2. | Appraise the philosophies that underpin the development of health policy and the allocation of resources |
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| K3. | Differentiate between the political, social and economic factors and evaluate their influence on policy decision making |
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| K4. | Analyse the policy development cycle and assess how it informs different approaches to policy analysis |
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| K5. | Debate the response to policy failure both in government policy and the broader health sector |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Analyse and critically reflect on the political agenda in health policy development |
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| S2. | Conduct policy analysis and apply to a range of health contexts |
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| S3. | Critically and systematically evaluate health policy and the impact on the individual, the organisation and the broader community |
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| S4. | Interpret and transmit knowledge, skills and ideas on identified gaps in policy and the need for effective policy in healthcare to specialist and non-specialist audiences |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Take initiative to apply knowledge and skills in health policy in professionalpractice, particularly in service planning, quality and safety and health services management |
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| A2. | Demonstrate ethicalpracticein all aspects of policy analysis, development, and be accountable in reviewing other policy in light of ethicalpractice |
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| Unit Content: |
•introduction to public policy
•rationale for public policy
•problem and solution analysis in policy
•the policy development cycle
•cost benefit analysis
•policy analysis
•examination of policy failure and ethics in policy development |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K5, S2, S3, S4 | Students are required to identify a second contemporary health policy in Australia or their home countries, analyse and discuss the issues and suggest possible solutions. | Essay | 40-60% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2 | Students are required to review and analyse a contemporary health policy in Australia or their home country and make a presentation and report. | Presentation and report | 40-60% |
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