308936 (v.1) Medical Geography 600


Area: Centre for International Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 8.0
 
** 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. **
 
Individual Study: 1 x 8 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Introduction to medical geography. Application of medical geography - diseases, social and political aspects of medical geography, medical geography for health systems and organisations, medical geography aspects of emergencies. Methods - descriptive method and analytical method, Geographic information systems. Water and health - water contamination, water stress sanitation, waterborne diseases. Water access and privatisation. Water and health problems in developed, developing and newly industrialised countries.
 
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Field of Education: 069900 Other Health (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*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
2005 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