304645 (v.3) Environmental Health Specialisation 102

Area:

School of Public Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

6.0

** 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 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 decentralisation and 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.

** 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:

061307 Health Promotion

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*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
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	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