Graduate Certificate of Health Administration

Unit Code: MPH5301

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.

Unit Code: MPH5304

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Leading and managing in public health and health care’ will review key leadership, management, and organisation theory and its application within health care settings. You will learn about the role of the manager, leadership skills, staffing issues, clinician engagement, performance management, career management, change management, project management and structuring organisations for patient care.

Unit Code: MPH5308

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.

Unit Code: MPH5311

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Safety and quality in health care’ investigates the historical, political and social factors that inform quality measurement in health care. Through use of epidemiological and statistical quality measurement principles, you will examine the relationship of industrial and health care quality monitoring, as well as the strengths and limitations of current monitoring techniques. With an understanding of clinical indicator programs, adverse event monitoring, satisfaction surveys and benchmarking, you will discover how quality improvement programs can be designed and implemented to substantially approve health care quality.

Unit Code: MPH5318

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications.

Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.

Unit Code: MPH5315

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Introduction to management’ introduces core management concepts, contextualised within the specific needs of health care services. You will learn about the current challenges facing managers in the dynamic health care industry, and explore topics including: the role of the individual, the importance of teamwork, team culture, conflict management, effective decision making and ethical considerations. You will participate in a variety of activities, including interactive case studies, and have the opportunity to apply theory to ‘real’ world examples through group presentations.

Unit Code: MPH5316

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Health care improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. ‘Healthcare improvement and learning systems’ provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement health care improvement projects in clinical settings and develop solutions for gaps in health care through considered data management and stakeholder engagement. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation, while exploring key concepts that include change management strategies, strategies to enable knowledge sharing, data collection, and managing information systems.

Contact Hours: 20

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Review of legal principles related to health care; including common law principles and statutes. The focus is on key areas of medical and health law such as negligence, consent, privacy of health information, clinical research, abortion, euthanasia, mental health, infectious diseases, health complaints, ethics and human rights and law for health systems.

Unit Code: MPH5302

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.

Unit Code: MPH5305

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Epidemiology is a vital field of study within the health care sector, helping us better understand the occurrence and distribution of health events affecting large populations. In ‘Epidemiology: concepts and applications’ you will explore a range of topics essential to parsing epidemiological data and research, including: rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. Students are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level

Unit Code: MPH5317

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Healthcare and economic management’ explores the complexities of care delivery in the evolving world of health services. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, which means that fluency in health economics is essential. In this unit, students will explore concepts of resource allocation and analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding.

Unit Code: MPH5319

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

MPH5319 Managing Digital Health provides a solid understanding of the current digital health environment in Australia (and internationally) including examples of large-scale digital health initiatives. It explores the different types of digital health data and their use and limitations in healthcare and research. It introduces national data governance frameworks, and discusses how these policies and principles apply within institutions and organisations that use healthcare data. It takes a deep dive into the Australian Electronic Health Record journey and what has been learned from these experiences. It discusses the impact of digital health on consumers, as well as introducing current and future digital health innovations that will continue to shape how healthcare evolves.

This unit is aimed at clinicians and researchers working in healthcare and related research areas who wish to improve their understanding and experience in managing digital health.