HBS107 - Understanding Health

Unit details

Year

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Kris Vingrys
Trimester 3: Kris Vingrys
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: HBSM107
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

Online independent learning and 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar per week.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent learning and 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week.

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.

Content

This interdisciplinary unit examines a determinants approach to health and wellbeing, including: the complex range of interactions that influence the health of individuals and populations; the determinants of selected health issues in urban and rural Australia, as well as in global contexts, and explores a range of models and approaches and their impact on health outcomes.

Topics include: The concepts of health, the social determinants of health, health systems, the biological and environmental determinants, health promotion, indigenous health, settings for health, marginalised populations and global health.

Learning Outcomes

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

Adopt a global perspective to identify and discuss the different concepts of health and how they differ across population groups.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Identify current population health issues and explain how the determinants of health underpin these issues.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Demonstrate oral and written communication skills and use digital technologies to locate credible sources of information related to the social determinants of health to support ideas and arguments in individual and teamwork.

GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO7: Teamwork

ULO4

Critically analyse how determinants of health influence government policy and are linked to population health outcome.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO5

Identify the responsibilities of governments in Australia to improve population health.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO6

Identify individual attributes to support your career development and interpret your findings through determinants of health theory.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO6: Self-management
GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) Indicative due week

Assessment 1: Managing My Career Written Report

1000 words

25%

  • Week 5

Assessment 2: A Health Plan Written Report

1600 words

40%

  • Week 8

Assessment 3: Health Profile Group Oral Presentation

10 minutes

35%

  • Group Charter: Week 7
  • Presentation Slides: Week 9
  • Group Presentations: Weeks 10 and 11

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 HBS107 can be found via the University Library.

Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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