7378 (v.7) Fundamentals of Public Health Nutrition 282

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):	1643 (v.7) Human Biology 133 or any previous version OR 307195 (v.2) Practice of Public Health 180 or any previous version OR 1644 (v.7) Human Biology 134 or any previous version OR 311438 (v.1) Global and Indigenous Public Health 180 or any previous version
Syllabus:	The diet and disease relationship, nutrition misinformation, cost of diet related disease, food and nutrition policy, dietary guidelines, food and nutrition systems, food production, trends in the available food supply, public perceptions and scientific reality of hazards in foods, food law, labelling and health claims, food additives, contaminants and microbiology, variables affecting food habits, methods for assessing food, methods of evaluation food habits, food selection guides, nutrient composition recommended dietary intakes, Australian food habits, nutritional status during the lifecycle, nutrition and health inequalities, the role of diet in diet-related disease; energy and obesity, heart disease, fat and sodium, cancer, gastrointestinal disease, micro-nutrient disease, impact of nutrition education and promotion issues for the future.
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Field of Education:	069901 Nutrition and Dietetics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Fully 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 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