304645 (v.1) Environmental Health Specialisation 102
| Area: | School of Public Health |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 6.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 4 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Health promotion - the foundations of health promotion. Methods for health education within the community. Program planning and evaluation. Media strategies. Demographics -spatial organisation and structure of Australian society, current social and environmental issues. Urbanisation in Australia, attempts at decentralization, counter-urbanisation. Contemporary trends in Australia's population distribution, both urban and rural. City growth, land use patterns, socio-economic differentiation and environmental health within Australian cities. Multiculturalism - Exposure to local and global multicultural issues that affect environmental health systems, cross cultural and intra-cultural communication imperatives and sensitivities. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will be able to - Understand the principles of multicultural issues in relation to environmental health management. Understand the application of health promotion and health education principles to environmental health issues. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | Green L. and Ottoson J., (1999), Community and Population Health, NY, McGraw Hill. |
| Unit Texts: | No prescribed texts. |
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| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | | |
Current as of: February 2, 2004
CRICOS provider code 00301J
