Evaluating Health Interventions
PostgraduateTAS-CAM6182027
Course information for 2027 intake View information for 2026 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 14 Feb 2027
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $3,222
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Evaluating Health Interventions
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Appraise health needs and assets assessment approaches, including stakeholder engagement in informing health action.
- Analyse planning and implementation processes in relation to health interventions.
- Formulate theories of change and logic models for health intervention design and evaluation.
- Justify health intervention approaches, including data collection and analysis methods.
- Evaluate health intervention design and implementation approaches for quality, impact, reach and sustainability within health systems.
- Module 1: Evaluating health interventions: an introduction
- Module 2: Health evaluation practice
- Module 3: Planning an intervention
- Module 4: Understanding the intervention
- Module 5: Intervention logic
- Module 6: Theory of change
- Module 7: Framing the evaluation
- Module 8: Planning the evaluation
- Module 9: Evaluation frameworks
- Module 10: Approaches to evaluation
- Module 11: Mixed method evaluation approaches
- Module 12: Evaluation methods
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system improvement. It provides evidence to inform the planning, implementation, and, improvement of health interventions across diverse contexts. Student develop competencies in needs and assets assessment, stakeholder engagement, and the application of evidence, theories of change, and logic models to inform intervention design and evaluation. In this subject, health interventions are considered broadly to include programs, services, policies, and system-level initiatives. This is underpinned by exploration of the different evaluation approaches, designs and methods used in evaluation practice.
- Evaluation Plan (40%)
- Discussion Board (20%)
- Intervention Analysis: Interactive Oral Assessment. Hurdle task requires successful completion to pass the subject. (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-HSI-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
- TAS-HSI-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
Elective
- TAS-ADH-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
- TAS-APD-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
- TAS-CDP-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
- TAS-AQS-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-AWP-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
- TAS-SCL-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
- TAS-AOR-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
- TAS-AOP-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
- TAS-AMS-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
- TAS-HSI-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
- TAS-APH-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
- TAS-APG-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
- TAS-CUC-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
- TAS-CCR-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
- TAS-MPH-GCE-2027 - Graduate Certificate in Public Health
- TAS-APM-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Management)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Independent Learning 8 hours weekly; Tutorial (Online) 1 hour fortnightly
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
PostgraduateTAS-HSI-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
PostgraduateTAS-HSI-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
PostgraduateTAS-ADH-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
PostgraduateTAS-APD-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
PostgraduateTAS-CDP-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
PostgraduateTAS-AWP-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
PostgraduateTAS-SCL-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
PostgraduateTAS-AOR-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
PostgraduateTAS-AOP-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AMS-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
PostgraduateTAS-APH-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
PostgraduateTAS-APG-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
PostgraduateTAS-CUC-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
PostgraduateTAS-CCR-MAS
Graduate Certificate in Public Health
PostgraduateTAS-MPH-GCE
Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Management)
PostgraduateTAS-APM-MAS