308936 (v.1) Medical Geography 600

Area:	Centre for International Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	8.0
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.
Individual Study:	1 x 8 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Introduction to medical geography. Application of medical geography - diseases, social and political aspects of medical geography, medical geography for health systems and organisations, medical geography aspects of emergencies. Methods - descriptive method and analytical method and geographic information systems. Water and health - water contamination, water stress sanitation, waterborne diseases. Water access and privatisation. Water and health problems in developed, developing and newly industrialised countries.
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:	069900 Other Health (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *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
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2009	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