Students have mentors to assist them with practice issues. Health Policy enables students to be better informed observers and actors in policy processes. The subject begins with an examination of the current local and global policy-making context in the fields of health and welfare. This includes a review of the impact of neoclassical economics, managerialism and the contract-state on policy making today. The rest of the subject focuses on the theoretical and practical foundations of public policy.
Students undertake a policy case study on a policy event of their choice.
Information Management examines how case managers receive, provide, produce and manage information. The design and implementation of information management systems will also be covered. The subject concludes with an analysis of the potential impact of information management on case managers, clients, organisations and society. Research and Evaluation for Practice is based on the ideal of evidence-based practice, and its purpose is to develop practitioners' confidence and skills in critical consumption of research and evaluation reports. The subject begins with an examination of evidence-based practice issues.