Courses Handbook 2010

7378 (v.7) Fundamentals of Public Health Nutrition 282


Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** 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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 1643 (v.7) Human Biology 133 or any previous version
OR
307195 (v.2) Practice of Public Health 180 or any previous version
OR
1644 (v.7) Human Biology 134 or any previous version
OR
311438 (v.1) Global and Indigenous Public Health 180 or any previous version
Syllabus: The diet and disease relationship, global public health nutrition problems, cost of diet-related disease, food and nutrition policy, dietary guidelines, food and nutrition systems, trends in the available food supply, food law, labelling and health claims, factors affecting food habits, methods for assessing food, methods of evaluation of food habits, food selection guides, nutrient reference values, Australian food habits, nutritional status during the life cycle, nutrition and health inequalities, nutrition and Australian Indigenous people, the role of diet in diet-related disease energy and obesity, heart disease, micronutrient disease, settings for public health nutrition, use of media, impact of nutrition education, and promotion issues for the future.
** 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: 069901 Nutrition and Dietetics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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