Courses Handbook 2010

7924 (v.7) Injury Control 288


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
Prerequisite(s): 307195 (v.2) Practice of Public Health 180 or any previous version
Syllabus: Rationale for a public health approach to injury prevention. Scientific principles of injury causation magnitude and cost of the injury problem and prevention models. Educational and behavioural, engineering and technological, legislative and regulatory strategies. Effective design and implementation of prevention programs. Evaluating programs. Data sources. Use of data. Limitations of data. Investigation of common types of injury. Practice in the application of principles of prevention. Case studies ininjury control.
** 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: 061301 Occupational Health and Safety
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*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 Open University HK Trimester 1A 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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