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Health and Wellbeing in Social and Cultural Contexts

Undergraduate | CUR-BSC120 | 2024

Explore what it means to be healthy and well. You’ll look into factors like gender, income, and education, to find out how they can influence health. Touch on traditional healing. Observe how healthcare professionals respond to challenging situations.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
Subject may require attendance
Enrol by
19 May 2024
Entry requirements
Prior study needed
Duration
13 weeks
Start dates
27 May 2024,
25 Nov 2024

Price from

$555

Upfront cost

$0

HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

Health and Wellbeing in Social and Cultural Contexts

About this subject

  • 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

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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What to study next?

Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses

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