CHE603 - Aspects and Influences in Community Health

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Subject Title
Aspects and Influences in Community Health

Subject Description
This course provides a theoretical and historical foundation for understanding community health.  It will introduce the students to economic, environmental, and cultural influences that affect the health of contemporary populations.  The course will also create a basis for understanding the governmental and public health structures in which community care is integrated.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

  1. Discuss the effect of each of the historical milestones in the evolution of community health care, the development of Medicare and the Canadian Health Act in Canada. (Cognitive/Comprehension) 
  2. Discriminate between the following models of health care provision in the community sector: Community health centres, clinics, medical offices, ambulatory services, home care service, adult daycare, public health in the school, hospices, support groups and crisis intervention centres.  (Cognitive/Analysis)      
  3. Compare and contrast the variety of roles a health care provider in community health and public health needs to be proficient in.  (Cognitive/Synthesis) 
  4. Summarize and discuss how the economic status of individuals and communities directly affects their health status, vulnerability to illness, access to care, and ability to recover.  (Cognitive/Synthesis)
  5. Generalize and assess how changes in governmental health care provision have modified the delivery of public health care services in Ontario. (Cognitive/Analysis)
  6. Propose ideas on how cultural norms create specific concepts of what constitutes health and illness. (Cognitive/Synthesis)
  7. Evaluate how individuals from various cultures might address the process of health care and approach to treatment in accordance with their own cultural practices.  (Cognitive/ Evaluation)
  8. Recognize, assess, and discuss the characteristics that define cultural competence in the community health worker and evaluate the barriers to cultural competence.  (Cognitive/Evaluation)

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