Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Systems
PostgraduateUND-MEDI50182023
Course information for 2023 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Systems
About this subject
On completion of this subject students should be able to achieve the following learning outcomes:
1. Describe the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on health and health care systems in Australia and globally.
2. Describe the health system’s impact on the environment.
3. Use a systems approach to develop strategies for a health service to become environmentally sustainable including using quality improvement processes.
4. Monitor and critically appraise the response of health care systems to adapt to and mitigate climate change.
5. Analyse a systems approach to building health promoting, environmentally sustainable communities and health care systems.
- Health impacts of climate change
- Environmental impacts of the Anthropocene
- Sustainable development
- Quality improvement in healthcare & Assessment 1
- Sustainable quality improvement (SusQI) toolkit
- Designing an environmentally sustainable health system
- Low carbon healthcare & the Greener NHS
- Climate change adaptation & climate risk assessment
- SusQI presentations & Assessment 3
- Strategy setting for climate change and health
- Intersectoral action on climate change and health
- Advocacy for a climate and health agenda & panel discussion
- SusQI project proposals & end of course reflections
This subject explores how climate change and environmental degradation affect human health and health care systems, and the impact of health care on the environment. Learners identify, analyse and interpret the available sources of evidence that describe these escalating health challenges. Strategies that can be applied within the health sector to adapt to and mitigate climate change and environmental degradation are examined and critically appraised. The subject explores how sustainability can be embedded as a dimension of quality in health care. The importance of working effectively through organisational structures to enable the implementation of proposed strategies, policies and plans is reinforced through examples drawn from practice. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are used as a framework through which a systematic and systems theory approach to the health effects of climate change can be viewed.
1. Small group presentation to class
2. Individual written submission
3. Individual Written submission of a project proposal- Students will collaborate on a short presentation addressing one of the core course themes. (25%)
- Students will use the product of ongoing group work to generate an individual written submission that builds on an understanding of systems thinking. (25%)
- Students will be required to give an oral presentation proposing a Sustainable Quality Improvement Project and submit a written proposal document for the same project. (50%)
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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:
Core
- UND-PES-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate in Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Class is online in the evening, 6pm - 9pm.
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
Graduate Certificate in Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health
PostgraduateUND-PES-GCE