EL824 : Health Media & Communication

Department

Department of Public Health

Academic Program

Bachelor in public health

Type

Elective

Credits

02

Prerequisite

Overview

1. Analyze and describe how social, political, and cultural factors affect health communication and healthcare.

2. Articulate the ways in which different models of healthcare affect and reflect health communication.

3. Explore, analyze, and synthesize research and personal experience on narratively making sense of illness

4. Describe the communication of patients, health caregivers, and family caregivers and how the perspectives inform, differ from, and intersect with one another

5. Define the role of communication in maintaining health and coping with illness and death

6. Identify the various approaches for translating research into practice; including community based participatory research, education, edutainment, documentaries, and key steps in planning, implementing, and assessing health promotion campaigns

7. Understand and persuasively articulate how health communication matters to you, to others, and to Libyan society.

Intended learning outcomes

3. Intended Learning Outcomes

A. Knowledge and Understanding

A.1

Develop skills transfer health knowledge in Libyan society

A.2

Understand the limitations of health communication

A.3

Develop advanced critical thinking skills.

A.4

Develop skills in health media.

B. Intellectual Skills

B.1

Able to analyze and build ideas related to health media

B.2

To build knowledge and information that help critical thinking

B.3

Able to make problem-solving and compare concepts in different culture

C. Professional and Practical Skills

C.1

Select and use appropriate subject and techniques to present health issue

C.2

Make observations and measurements accurately in this field

C.3

Carry out all these operations to conduct good communication

C.4

Demands of safe and efficient tools

D. General/Transferable Skills

D.1

The ability to work in group research

D.2

Organize and plan Time to manage the project

D.3

The ability to transfer the communication by good writing skills

D.4

The good work ethic by following rules of research ethics

Teaching and learning methods

1. Lectures

2. Discussion

3. Presentation

4. Homework

Methods of assessments

Assessment Method

Due (week)

Weight (%)

Notes

1

Midterm exam

Week fifth and tenth

20%

Written

2

Oral exam

3

Practical exam

4

Assignments/HWs

Week seventeen and eighteen

70%

Written

5

Final exam

Week four and week twelve

10%

Quizzes

Total (%)

100%

Topics

Total hrs.

Lectures

Lab

Ex/Hw

Week1

Introduction to the course

2

2

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Week2

Why is Health Communication Important

2

2

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Week3

Sociohistorical Considerations

Public ,social, cultural, and political consideration

2

2

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Week4

Stigma & Mental Health

2

2

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Week5

Midterms Exam I

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Week6

Patient-Caregiver Communication

2

2

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Week7

Patient Perspectives

2

2

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Week8

Communication in the Cancer Clinic

2

2

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Week9

Methods of Translation

2

2

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Week10

Midterms Exam II

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Week11

Community Interventions

2

2

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Week12

Community-based Participatory Research

2

2

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Week13

Death & Dying: Palliative Care

2

2

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Week14

Review

2

2

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Week15

Assessment and Presentations

2

2

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Week16

Assessment and Presentations

2

2

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