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Study diploma health & medical science online with University of New England through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Introduction to Human Physiology

Health and Wellbeing in Social and Cultural Contexts

Introduction to Nutrition

Food as Medicine

Introduction to Health Psychology

Nutrition and Exercise Biochemistry

Human Biology

Foundations of Nutrition and Health

Human Structure and Function

Nutrition for Exercise and Performance

Health professionals need advanced communication skills to effectively share complex and sensitive information and advice with clients, families and professional colleagues. Studying this subject will help to equip you with the verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills required to succeed as a health or social care professional. With an emphasis on self-awareness and self-reflection, this subject allows you to develop and apply your communication skills for a health and social care context. You will identify goals and strategies for communication in health and social care, and examine the importance of communicating in ethnically and culturally appropriate ways. You will also have opportunities to analyse your personal communication style to better understand how this affects professional communication with both clients and colleagues.

Prepare to communicate professionally with clients and colleagues. Within the setting of health and social care, build your written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Become aware of your own personal style as well as cultural considerations.

Communication for Health Professionals

In modern health and social care, actions and advice must be based on reliable and up-to-date information and evidence. Studying this subject will equip you with foundational skills for using information and evidence in social care and health professional practice. With a focus on learning and decision making, you will identify sources of information and evidence for health and social care, analysing how research and evidence-based practice has improved outcomes for individuals and communities. Examining the strengths, limitations and challenges of using an evidence-based approach in health and social care, you will explore the evolution of information and evidence and its impact on the development of health professional education and practice.Using a structured approach to locate, collate and present information and evidence in contextually appropriate ways in a range of formats, the subject will also help you to develop your research skills.

Examine sources for knowledge and decision making in health and social care. Consider the strengths and challenges of using an evidence based approach in the industry. 

Information and Evidence in Health and Social Care

Health and social care professionals today work collaboratively with each other and with clients, families, carers and communities to achieve the best outcomes for overall health and well-being. In this subject, you will gain an introduction to the history and context of health professional practice, applying principles of interprofessional practice in contextually appropriate ways. With a focus on interprofessional practice in healthcare, you will explore the roles and functions of people working within health and community service organisations and how these people can work together to deliver health care. Examining ethical, moral, legal and professional standards, and processes for meeting these standards, you will reflect on and analyse factors that will shape the development of your own professional identity. The subject will also help you to identify career opportunities within health and social care.

Come to understand the history and context of health professional practice using the lens of your own profession. Look into ethical, legal and professional standards of practice.

Interprofessional Practice in Health and Social Care

Health is a changing landscape which generates profound ethical and legal quandaries. Significant developments in biotechnology over the last three decades, such as assisted reproductive technology, genetic manipulation, organ transplantation and stem cell research, generate wide interest and raise important bioethic questions. As such, legal regulation must respond to such innovations in a measured and ethical manner. This subject explores current issues that arise in the fields of health and biotechnology to consider the legal implications and responses to emerging technology. You will explore these issues and gain valuable insights into the legal issues that are triggered by new technology and ethics in health.

Contemporary Issues in Health Law

Add a new dimension to your approach to diet and health, whether you are interested in biomedical science, exercise physiology, sports science, or other life sciences. Gain knowledge in human nutrition and explore current issues and controversies in the field. This subject provides you with a broad introduction to the theories and technical knowledge underpinning human nutrition, and the ways in which an evidence-based approach is used in this field. You will explore a range of topics including the role of diet in the development of various diseases and in the maintenance of health, and the use of dietary assessment in evaluating the adequacy and health of diets. This subject offers opportunities to extend your critical thinking and communication skills, as you discuss controversial statements about the contribution of diet to health, framed by current evidence for best practice.

Explore the relationship between diet and the maintenance of health. Understand how dietary assessment works. Describe and discuss the nature of human nutrition. Learn to interpret dietary intake and energy expenditure data.

Issues in Human Nutrition

Are you interested in human development and want to know more about the biological, physiological and cognitive changes occurring throughout the human life cycle? This subject offers a broad introduction to the principles of human development across the lifespan, providing invaluable insights into biological, physiological and cognitive development and changes as we age. Beginning with embryo development, you will explore aspects of development in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age and death. You will examine the impact of environment on development, building a well-rounded understanding of the multifactorial interplay between this and other factors that drive change as we age. You will be encouraged to hone your critical thinking and communication skills, as you review current literature and case studies to understand and solve problems relating to human development.

Dive into the processes that take place as we develop and age. You’ll cover biological, physiological and cognitive changes in the human life-cycle – spanning from embryo to childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age and death.

Introduction to Human Development

Childhood development occurs on a continuum, with rapid physical, social, emotional and cognitive change occurring in primary school-aged children. In this subject, you will explore the fundamentals of curriculum theory and teaching in the Health and Physical Education (HPE) component of the primary school curriculum. Engaging in a variety of learning experiences, you will examine the theoretical and practical aspects of this key learning area, with different approaches to learning and recognition of the needs of students of differing abilities. This subject provides you with opportunities to explore current research-based knowledge for teaching movement skills and demonstrate your knowledge of teaching and assessment strategies, class management and organisation skills for safe HPE teaching. You will also critique, design and implement lesson sequences that integrate diverse approaches to K-6 HPE teaching and learning.

Health and Physical Education in the Primary School

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