511-215 Health Promotion 2B

This subject is comprised of 2 modules:

Ethics and Professional Practice: Dental health policies, the Dental Practice Act 1999 and its administration, the principles and application of ethics to health care and human research and specific cross cultural issues such as indigenous health care, privacy and health consumer issues; ethics and professional practice.

Applied Health Education: School curriculum frameworks, health promoting schools, settings and strategies for health education, educational technology and aids for oral health and applied health education experience via in-class practical sessions and field visits.

(1) One assignment of no more than 1000 words and (2) One report of no more than 2000 words. A pass in Section 2 is required for an overall pass in this subject.

• K Glanz, FM Lewis and BK Rimer (eds), Health Behaviour and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice 2. 2nd edn, Jossey-Bass, 2002.
• P Hawe, D Degeling and J Hall, Evaluating Health Promotion: A Health Workers' Guide. McLennan Petty, NSW, 1990.
• P Beemsterboer, Ethics and Law in Dental Hygiene. Saunders (Elsevier), Philadelphia, 2002.
• KR Mitchell, IH Kerridge and JJ Lovat, Bioethics and Clinical Ethics for Health Care Professionals. 2nd edn, Social Science Press, NSW, 1996.
• J Naidoo and J Wills, Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice. 2nd edn, Balliere Tindall, London, 2000.