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Global Public Health Challenges
Postgraduate | CUR-MPH404 | 2022
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Navigate the public health system’s origins. Identify and scrutinise environmental, social and biological factors affecting public health services.Analyse causes of global health issues and plan, introduce and monitor public health interventions.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Global Public Health Challenges
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- critique different perspectives on health, its measurement, determinants and patterns
- define public health and analyse its origins, historical development and contemporary approaches
- evaluate the role of ethics, equity and evidence in addressing inequality in the context of public health
- demonstrate an appropriate understanding of academic integrity principles and apply academic writing, referencing and acknowledgement conventions required for the discipline
- Introduction to public health
- Biological health determinants
- Environmental health determinants
- Social health determinants
- Global public health
- Public health measurement and surveillance
- Health promotion
- Policy, politics and power
- Indigenous public health
- Public health nutrition
- Climate change and public health
- Occupational health and safety
- Emergencies, disasters and public health
- Sexuality and public health
- Public health ethics
This subject was previously known as Foundations of Public Health.
This subject introduces students to public health as an organised global and local effort to prevent illness and promote and protect the public’s health. It will explore principles and practice of public health - past, present and future. It frames public health in its historical, political and cultural contexts to enable student to engage critically and conceptually with contemporary public health theory and practice. Public health issues, both local and global, are used as case studies to assist students to develop the knowledge, skills and conceptual vocabulary necessary to analyse public health challenges and articulate possible solutions. This subject will cover: historical contexts and developments; frameworks, theory and multidisciplinary approaches; the pillars of protection, prevention and promotion; the determinants of health and illness of populations; global and indigenous public health; ethics, equity and evidence in public health.
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- Online Short Answer Assessment (15%)
- Critical paper (40%)
- Workbook (45%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-CEH601 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE