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Social Determinants of Health

Undergraduate | LTU-PHE101 | 2022

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Explore how access to healthcare influences how people interpret, understand and respond to health, wellbeing and illness. Examine how education, race, class, gender and culture guides people’s decision making and expectations of well-being.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

Social Determinants of Health

About this subject

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

    1. explain common beliefs about health and illness to suggest and discuss the basis of these beliefs and why they persist;
    2. examine how social and cultural factors shape and determine people's experience of health and illness in different parts of the world;
    3. compare health and illness outcomes experienced by groups from different social and cultural contexts and explain why differences occur;
    4. discuss the interactions between health and illness, social perceptions of disease, culture and other societal structures and institutions;
    5. research and use different types of data and information to understand and explain health and illness issues within a diverse social and cultural context.

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

  • LAT-HUN-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Food and Nutrition

Others

Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed PHE1SDH Social Determinants of Health are ineligible to enrol in this subject.

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements - This subject is available through Open Universities Australia (OUA) and the course is restricted for enrolment. Single subject enrolments for restricted subjects are not available at OUA, please see https://www.latrobe.edu.au/study/apply/pathways/single-subject-entry for further information. Students who successfully complete two from the four open enrolment subjects (HBS101, DTN101, CHM101, PHE102) may apply under the Academic Eligibility category for admission to the restricted Bachelor of Food and Nutrition. You must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Food and Nutrition to be eligible to enrol in all other non-open access subjects offered in the degree.

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.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.

Related degrees

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

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UndergraduateLAT-HUN-DEG

Bachelor of Food and Nutrition

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