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Last updated: 4 June 2021
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HSH111
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
11 face-to-face 2-hour seminars for on-campus students.
Cloud (online) Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 11 scheduled online 2-hour seminars for off-campus students. All online sessions are recorded.
This unit is core to the Bachelor of Public Health and Health Promotion, the combined courses with Commerce and Nursing, and for the Health Promotion major pathway in the Bachelor of Health Sciences. The unit is also offered as an elective to students across the University. Through this unit, students will be introduced to applying theories, models and frameworks used in both public health and health promotion; examine multiple dimensions of disease prevention and control including biological, behavioural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors; as well as relevant ethical, social, legal and advocacy issues.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving
ULO2
Locate sources of information relating to public health and health promotion, and collect and analyse information from these sources to support ideas and arguments.
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
ULO3
Identify multiple dimensions of disease prevention and control including biological, behavioural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors.
ULO4
ULO5
GLO8: Global citizenship
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.
Weekly readings will be provided. It is not necessary to purchase copies of the Recommended Learning Resources. Copies can be found in the library on reserve and as a Deakin eBook using the Talis system, which is linked in the CloudDeakin site.
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