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Topics in the resource inventory

• Specific populations: characteristics, needs, access and equity, and the factors that create health inequities
• Quantitative and qualitative measures for detecting health inequities
• The socio-ecological model of health
• Social justice principles and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• The PABCAR public health decision-making model
• Needs assessment: purpose, four types of need and the seven steps
• The Ottawa Charter: enabling, mediating and advocating, action areas and actions to address inequity
• The Rio Declaration on Social Determinants of Health: five actions
• Healthcare system reforms (PHI rebate, screening and vaccination, PBS) and health literacy
• Culture, beliefs, attitudes and values towards healthcare, environmental factors and conflicting norms
• Self-management skills, culture and health decisions, and relationship building in health settings
• Social, environmental, socioeconomic and biomedical determinants and health inequities
• Global and local barriers and comparing health indicators: Australia and developing countries
• Roles of the WHO and Australia's aid program
• UN Sustainable Development Goals 2 to 6: purpose and progress
• Health promotion advocacy: definition, when best used and nine strategies
• National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions: principles and objectives
• Government policies and regulations, beliefs, attitudes and values, and proscriptive, prescriptive and popular norms
• World events and identity; communication and collaboration skills in health settings
• The health inquiry: focus questions, source criteria, data trends, argument, conclusions and presentation