HLTPOP006 — Contribute to working with the community to identify health needs
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What an assessment for HLTPOP006 must cover
49 assessable components: 3 elements (10 performance criteria), 4 performance evidence and 35 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Assist in conducting a literature review
- 1.1Identify aims of literature review and source relevant organisation reports and key documents with a focus on health needs
- 1.2Consult key stakeholders from the community and other relevant bodies for sources of information relevant to health needs
- 1.3Identify and source information and data at local, State/Territory or regional level that may assist in defining and assessing the health needs of the community
- 1.4Provide feedback to the work team or team leader on sources of information and assist with reviewing literature
2 Participate in a consultation process with the community
- 2.1Contribute to discussions with key stakeholders regarding the health problem, its causes and appropriate interventions and solutions
- 2.2Provide briefing materials throughout the consultation process to identify and clarify issues of interest and concern to stakeholders and own organisation
- 2.3Provide feedback to the team leader or work team on the results of the consultation process
3 Contribute to activities that assist the community to identify their health needs
- 3.1Contribute to activities that assist community to understand the factors contributing to the health issue or problem
- 3.2Collect further information and data when needed for input into the analysis and presentation of results arising from the literature review and consultation processes
- 3.3Collaborate with team and supervisor to recommend activities to stakeholders that would build the ongoing capacity of the community to understand and identify their health needs
Performance evidence
- assisted at least 1 community to identify their health needs
- participating in at least 2 consultation processes with a range of stakeholders
- assisting in the review of literature from a range of sources
- providing at least 2 recommendations to support the ongoing capacity of community to identify health needs
Knowledge evidence
- legal, ethical and organisation requirements relating to identifying community health needs, including:
- relevant international charters and declarations and documents
- national, State/Territory and local health policies, goals, targets and priorities relevant to the community
- scope of own role and responsibilities
- equity issues in population health
- evidence-based practice
- quality assurance
- social change and advocacy processes
- privacy and confidentiality
- responsibility to help a community respond to needs they identify which might not necessarily coincide with stated priority health needs
- principles of capacity building
- community health needs: state, conditions or factors in the community which, if absent, prevent people from achieving the optimum of physical, mental and social wellbeing
- types of need:
- normative need (based on expert opinion)
- expressed need (based on inferences made from observation of use of health services)
- comparative need (derived from examining the services provided in a similar population)
- felt need (based on what members of the community say they need)
- activities that develop an understanding of the factors contributing to the health issue or problem of the community
- overview of the stages in population health project planning
- theory and practice of population health, including health promotion, and health protection and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases
- consultation and participation principles and techniques, including:
- interviews
- nominal group process
- questionnaires
- Delphi Method
- focus groups
- forums
- meetings
- conflict resolution, mediation and problem solving techniques
- literature review processes and sources of information
- difference between and examples of qualitative and quantitative data
- communities and types of data relevant to the community, including:
- demographic characteristics
- patterns of behaviour
- lifestyle.
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Questions about assessing HLTPOP006
What does an assessment tool for HLTPOP006 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for HLTPOP006 needs to address all 49 unit components: 3 elements with 10 performance criteria, 4 performance evidence requirements, 35 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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