PUBH6005 (v.2) Global Public Health Challenges
Area: | School of Public Health |
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Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
TUITION PATTERNS: | The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline. |
Workshop: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Equivalent(s): |
311832 (v.5)
MPH404 Foundations of Public Health
OR 13230 (v.3) Foundations of Public Health 681 or any previous version OR PUBH6022 (v.2) MPH404 Global Public Health Challenges or any previous version |
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: | The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline. |
Syllabus: | This unit introduces students to public health as an organised global and local effort to prevent illness and promote and protect the public’s health. It will explore principles and practice of public health - past, present and future. It frames public health in its historical, political and cultural contexts to enable student to engage critically and conceptually with contemporary public health theory and practice. Public health issues, both local and global, are used as case studies to assist students to develop the knowledge, skills and conceptual vocabulary necessary to analyse public health challenges and articulate possible solutions. This unit will cover: historical contexts and developments; frameworks, theory and multidisciplinary approaches; the pillars of protection, prevention and promotion; the determinants of health and illness of populations; global and indigenous public health; ethics, equity and evidence in public health. |
Field of Education: | 061399 Public Health not elsewhere classified |
Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Fully Online |
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2020 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | ||
2020 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | ||
2020 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | ||
2020 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y |
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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