Exploring threshold concepts in population health

Threshold concepts in prosthetics

BACKGROUND Curriculum documents identify key concepts within learning prosthetics. Threshold concepts provide an alternative way of viewing the curriculum, focussing on the ways of thinking and practicing within prosthetics. Threshold concepts can be described as an opening to a different way of viewing a concept. This article forms part of a larger study exploring what students and staff exper...

Basic concepts in population health and health care.

These definitions are intended to be operational definitions; that is, they are designed to facilitate the development of specific measures to assess their attainment, on the assumption that it does no good to provide a definition if it does not facilitate assessment of change or the extent to which a goal has been reached. For example, most definitions of equity use the terms “fairness” or “ju...

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Design as Interpretation: Exploring Threshold Concepts in First Year Design Education

This paper explores first year design education in the Interior Architecture program at the University of New South Wales by conceiving the interpretive nature of the design process as a “threshold concept”. According to Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land (2002), threshold concepts in learning and teaching represent a transformative and irreversible way of understanding a subject, likened to a portal...

Population Health Measurement: Applying Performance Measurement Concepts in Population Health Settings

INTRODUCTION Whether the focus of population-health improvement efforts, the measurement of health outcomes, risk factors, and interventions to improve them are central to achieving collective impact in the population health perspective. And because of the importance of a shared measurement system, appropriate measures can help to ensure the accountability of and ultimately integrate the effort...