Public Health Research Capstone: Skills and Knowledge Analysis

This Public Health Research Capstone report details a student's acquired skills and knowledge relevant to health promotion strategies. The report highlights key competencies such as partnership building, effective communication, technology proficiency, program planning, implementation, and evaluation. It emphasizes the importance of assessment skills, evidence-based strategies, and research methodologies in addressing health-related issues, specifically computer-related injuries. Furthermore, the report discusses the need for additional skills, including understanding environmental safety standards, and links these skills to existing frameworks and health practitioner competency standards, emphasizing education, training, and workforce development within the health sector. The report references several academic sources to support the analysis and recommendations.

Running Head: PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH CAPSTONE 1
Public Health Research Capstone
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Public Health Capstone
I have attained the core skills which are foundational to health promotion strategies. It is
of essence that I gain more skills and competencies which are relevant to health promotion.
These are the skills that I currently have.
Partnership building skills and knowledge
I have learned the skill to identify potential individual partners who would be beneficial
to health promotion in relation to computer-related injuries. Partnership building as a skill has
made me equipped me with the capabilities of engaging relevant companies, social groups, and
agencies in ensuring a collaborative approach.
Effective Communication and Report Writing knowledge and skill
As a medical practitioner, effective report writing skills are a necessity. This is crucial
when writing a program plan and the strategy for dealing with computer-related injuries at
Australia Catholic University. This would entail writing medical reports and journals,
preparation of health promotional materials related to computer-based injuries and decoding
medical terminologies for different audiences. (James, Lower & Howat,2001)
Effective communication especially the application of interpersonal skills, during conflict
management, decision making, team building, health promotion presentations, facilitation of
meetings and support-raising for the project. (Battel-Kirk, Barry, Taub & Lysoby,2009)

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Technology skill base
I have been skilled in proper interaction with the computer interface in areas such as
word processing, spreadsheet, use of the internet and the search engines, use of audiovisuals for
presentation and relevant software for report requirements
Program planning, implementation, and evaluation skills
Assessment skills and knowledge
This skill would help in relevant literature review and get a view of the organizational.
This is to be attained with the involvement of the universities stakeholders. The input of
academic and practitioner professionals would be highly regarded in line with an assessment of
the impact and intervention strategies of computer-related injuries. The assessment skills would
help also in setting priority areas for health promotion. The thorough assessment would reveal
social, organizational and behavioral risk factors causing health-related injuries. (Barry,
Allegrante, Lamarre Auld & Taub, 2009)
Program planning skills and knowledge
These skills are of help in ensuring that I come up with a detailed intervention plan for
computer-related injuries and objectives that are measurable and realistic. The resources required
and relevant strategies to be implemented would be identified by using planning skills
Skills and knowledge for planning evidence-based strategies
These skills would help me formulate appropriate strategies that are relevant to the
school's culture, policies, and regulation. Background of the stakeholders’ social, cultural and
economic aspects would define our interactions with them for maximum results. Evidence

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gathered from the school facility using these skills would assist me in establishing a relevant
partnership based on the need assessment. Such partners would be sourced from different
sectors. The skills are crucial in the alignment of the chosen strategy to goals of the health
promotion program. The strategies formulated would involve structural and environmental,
lobbying and advocacy, health education, social marketing, and health policy. Lastly, these skills
would be used in ensuring ownership of the program by the community and ensuring its
sustainability.
Evaluation and Research skills and knowledge
These skills would help in engaging appropriate evaluation designs and methods into the
health promotions practice. It is helpful in measuring impact, outcome and the process, selection
of evaluation tools, readjustment of objectives based on the findings, use of qualitative and
quantitative data in the evaluation process, reporting of the evaluation results, preparation of
funding proposals and ethics approval. (Shilton, Howat, James, Burke, Hutchins & Woodman,
2008).
Additional Skills and Knowledge I need to complete the placement
The understanding of Environmental Safety Standards for Health promotion and procedures for
management
I need to learn the key aspects that make up a healthy and safe environment. This would
assist me in reducing the risk involved in computer-related injuries at Australia Catholic
University such as unfavorable working cabinets which would cause a strain on the back and
neck ache, use of software that is fitted with eye care, use of healthy screen brightness conditions
and limited use of computers to avoid migraines (Sharma, Khera & Khandekar, 2006). This

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would help me set key hazard controls, including proper infrastructure within the institution of
learning, set proper policies and regulations aimed at promotion of health and clearly define the
impact of the factors of health on health promotion (Shrivastava, & Bobhate, 2012)
The link between the new skills and knowledge to existing framework and health practitioner
competency standards
The above skills learned and the unlearnt such as Environmental Health and Safety
Standards are fitted into the existing framework and health practitioner competency standards.
The key priority areas include education and training, health sector workforce development and
health promotion workforce development. The framework is established to instill
professionalism, ethics, and integrity in the field.

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References
Barry, M. M., Allegrante, J. P., Lamarre, M. C., Auld, M. E., & Taub, A. (2009). The Galway
Consensus Conference: international collaboration on the development of core
competencies for health promotion and health education. Global health promotion, 16(2),
05-11.
Battel-Kirk, B., Barry, M. M., Taub, A., & Lysoby, L. (2009). A review of the international
literature on health promotion competencies: identifying frameworks and core
competencies. Global Health Promotion, 16(2), 12-20.
James, R., Shilton, T., Lower, T., & Howat, P. (2001). Health promotion development and health
promotion workforce competency in Australia. Health Promotion Journal of Australia:
Official Journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals, 12(2), 117.
Sharma, A. K., Khera, S., & Khandekar, J. (2006). Computer-related health problems among
information technology professionals in Delhi. Indian journal of community
medicine, 31(1), 36.
Shilton, T., Howat, P., James, R., Burke, L., Hutchins, C., & Woodman, R. (2008). Health
promotion competencies for Australia 2001—5: trends and their implications. Promotion
& Education, 15(2), 21-26.
Shrivastava, S. R., & Bobhate, P. S. (2012). Computer-related health problems among software
professionals in Mumbai: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Health &
Allied Sciences, 1(2), 74.