EEH404 - Health: a Family and Community Focus

Unit details

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Offering information:

This unit commences in 2014

Enrolment modes:

(B, G)

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit chair:C Stonehouse
Corequisite:

Students must be enrolled in course E377

Contact hours:

3 hour workshop

Content

Topics to be addressed in this unit include:

  • A life span approach to family and health
  • Different models of family, kinship and community
  • Understanding health implications for understanding health promotion approaches
  • Key health issues and priorities across the lifespan (tobacco use, depression, suicide, alcohol abuse, gender and violence, diabetes, heart diseases, motor vehicle accidents etc).
  • Relationships between class, gender, sexuality, location, age, ability, indigeneity, ethnicity, etc., and health outcomes
  • Understanding the determinants of health
  • The role of government in health provision, promotion and disease prevention at different stages of the lifespan
  • Australia’s policies and practices – how do they compare with other developed and developing countries?
  • Changing our health status –key strategies in health promotion.

Assessment

Assessment 1: Family Health Report Card, 2000 words, 40%

Assessment 2 Part 1: Health promotion campaign funding submission – Group task, 4000 words, 40%

Assessment 2 Part 2: Group funding submission – presentation, 20 %

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