Courses Handbook 2009

311438 (v.1) Global and Indigenous Public Health 180


Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 307182 (v.1) Health and Society 180 or any previous version
Syllabus: Public (population) health from global (developed and developing countries) and Indigenous peoples perspective. Determinants of physical and mental population health: biological (for example, genetics, age), environmental (for example, water, air, land, housing, food safety, climate change) and social (for example, nutrition, food security, culture, gender, class , stress, addiction, social exclusion/support, work conditions/unemployment). Health inequalities within and between populations. Exploration of the impact of social and environmental health determinants in low/medium/high income countries and migrant, refugee and Australian Aboriginal people. Social justice and equity. Health behaviours, communicable disease, non communicable disease and injury. Prevention and improvement of global and indigenous population health problems.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 061300 Public Health (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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