Health and Wellbeing in Social and Cultural Contexts

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate an appropriate understanding of academic integrity principles and apply academic writing, referencing and acknowledgement conventions required for the discipline
  2. demonstrate an understanding of the social determinants of health and illness using anthropological and sociological frameworks
  3. analyse social and cultural influences upon the health of marginalised populations
  4. describe and apply the concepts of cultural security, cultural safety and cultural competence in health care contexts for wellbeing and empowerment within a person-centred framework
  5. analyse the relationship between health and human rights in national and global contexts
  6. evaluate responses to contemporary global crises using transdisciplinary humanitarian health care delivery approaches

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• About Curtin University

Entry requirements

Others

Applicants must be over the age of 16.

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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