304645 (v.2) Environmental Health Specialisation 102


Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
 
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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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Field of Education: 90301 Sociology
Funding Cluster: 05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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