HSH758 - Theories, Concepts and Methods for the Determinants of Health
| Year: | 2027 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | Nil |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 11 x 1.5 hour scheduled (and recorded) lectures and 11 x 1 hour seminar. |
Content
In this unit students are introduced to the theories, concepts and methods surrounding the structural determinants of health - what many have described as the ‘causes of causes’ of disease, health outcomes and mortality. Rather than locating health primarily in personal choices, medical care or genetic factors, students will explore how health outcomes are produced through various social, economic and institutional structural sources. The unit covers five major structural domains that are shown to affect health outcomes: the social, the political, the commercial, the economic, and the environmental.
Students will develop a critical lens for understanding how each of these domains influence human and planetary health and will engage with the major frameworks and approaches used to analyse these relationships. Students will then apply these approaches through a series of case studies, developing key skills in analysing, presenting and visualising data on health determinants, as well as methods for critically interrogating the determinants of health and their intersections. The unit aims to build students’ capacity to view health and social problems holistically and through an interdisciplinary lens, and to engage constructively with diverse perspectives on health by examining a series of authentic global and social health issues and problems rooted in various inequalities.
Unit fee information
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