7924 (v.6) Injury Control 288

Area:

School of Public Health

Contact Hours:

4.0

Credits:

25.0

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Rationale for a public health approach to injury prevention. Scientific principles of injury causation magnitude and cost of the injury problem, prevention models. Educational/behavioural, engineering and technological and legislative/regulatory strategies. Effective design and implementation of prevention programmes. Evaluating programmes. Data sources. Use of data. Limitations of data. Investigation of common types of injury. Practice in the application of principles of prevention. Case studies in injury control.

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Area External	Central External
2003	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y		Y
2003	Bentley Campus	Semester 2			Y
2003	Bentley Campus	Summer Period		Y
2003	BPI Intern'l Group S'pore	Semester 1		Y
2003	BPI Intern'l Group S'pore	Semester 2		Y
2003	BPI Intern'l Group S'pore	Summer Period		Y
2003	BPI Intern'l Group S'pore	Trimester 2A	Y
2003	Open University HK	Semester 1		Y
2003	Open University HK	Semester 2		Y
2003	Open University HK	Summer Period		Y
2003	Open University HK	Trimester 2A	Y

- Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
- Central External refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area.

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