Courses Handbook 2010

301948 (v.3) International Health and Primary Health Care 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 7 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s):
Syllabus: Overview of international health; patterns of disease and health in developed and developing countries; resurgent and emergent diseases; health impact of globalisation and climate change; the background and context of primary health care; models of health and illness; health program policy, planning and evaluation; health and development; the socio-cultural context of health and illness; the economics of health care; health and community development; community participation; health workers; common, majorhealth problems- diarrhoea, malnutrition, the HIV/AIDS epidemic; immunization, family planning and reproductive health.
** 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: 069900 Other 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
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 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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