Courses Handbook 2010

303066 (v.2) Foundations of Public Health 781


Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Transdisciplinary grounding in public health theory and practice. Origins and development of public health and the major public health problems of developed and developing countries. An examination of the agents, host factors and environmental conditions that are determinants of public health. Criteria for ethical public health practice (regulatory, technical, cognitive, structural and participative interventions of public health). Public health planning, implementation and program evaluation.
** 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*: 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 Research Term 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2010 Bentley Campus Research Term 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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