Evaluating Health Interventions
PostgraduateTAS-CAM6182024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Evaluating Health Interventions
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Describe the application and importance of health intervention evaluation in health system improvement
- Describe and apply key approaches to conducting health needs and evaluability assessments
- Critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of different health intervention evaluation approaches, data collection and analysis methods
- Design an evaluation plan for a health interventions using contemporary and appropriate approaches to stakeholder engagement, logic modelling and data collection and analysis methods
- Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively to achieve health intervention evaluation objectives
- Week 1 - Module 1: Evaluating health interventions: an introduction
- Week 2 - Module 2: Health evaluation practice
- Week 3 - Module 3: Planning an intervention
- Week 4 - Module 4: Understanding the intervention
- Week 5 - Module 5: Intervention logic
- Week 6 - Module 6: Theory of change
- Week 7 - Module 7: Framing the evaluation
- Week 8 - Module 8: Selecting the type of evaluation
- Week 9 - Module 9: Methodological approaches to evaluation: Randomised control trial and quasi-experimental evaluations
- Week 10 - Module 10: Methodological approaches to evaluation: Qualitative
- Week 11 - Module 11: Methodological approaches to evaluation: Mixed methods
- Week 12 - Module 12: Evaluation plans
- Week 13 - Module 13: Economic evaluation
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system leadership. It provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This subject develops student competencies in health intervention evaluation, including stakeholder consultation, evaluation design and planning, needs assessment, logic modelling, evaluability assessment and relevant conceptual frameworks relevant to evaluation in public health and health system practice and leadership. This is underpinned by exploration of the different evaluation approaches and designs and the research and evaluation methods used in evaluation practice.
- Evaluation Plan (50%)
- Discussion Board (10%)
- Intervention Analysis (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-MPH-GCE-2024 - Graduate Certificate in Public Health
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Independent Learning 9 hours weekly; Tutorial (Online) 1 hour fortnightly
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Public Health
PostgraduateTAS-MPH-GCE