EEH404 - Health: a Family and Community Focus

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Claire Stonehouse
Prerequisite:

EEH202

Corequisite:

Students must be enrolled in course E377

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3-hour seminar per week for 7-weeks

Content

This unit builds disciplinary expertise in health and offers an approach to health education that focuses on the role of families and communities. Building both can have a positive impact on the school community. Students will define family in the 21st Century and be taken through a life span approach to family and community health. Considerations such as health promotion, Government initiatives, policies and practices, health status and health priorities will help guide this unit. These issues will take a local community to international approach.

The unit will address key health issues across the lifespan (drug use, mental health, Respectful Relationships, heart diseases, motor vehicle accidents, gambling, etc.) and discuss relationships between class, gender, sexuality, location, age, ability, indigeneity and ethnicity, as factors and determinants that influence health and wellbeing.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Examine teaching strategies to meet the health needs (and strengths) of students from diverse socioeconomic, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Critically investigate and discuss the health impact of culture, cultural identity and linguistic background on the education of students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Contrast disciplinary constructions of the health status of individuals at different stages of the lifespan and make inferences about the ways in which health status could impact on family life, community participation, wellbeing and designing of institutional policies.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Develop strengths-based strategies to proactively address youth health and student wellbeing in the school and wider community (teachers, students, staff, parents, organizations etc.)

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO5

Design and develop a broad range of strategies for involving a diverse range of parents/carers in the educative process

GLO2: Communication

GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Reflection (on a professional learning course) 1200 words
or equivalent
30% Week 3
Assessment 2 (Group) - Resource development and presentation 1600 words
or equivalent
40% Week 10
Assessment 3 - Essay 1200 words
or equivalent
30% Information not yet available

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

*The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: EEH404
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

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