Women's and Children's Health
MIPH5115
This unit aims to give students an overview of the health status of women and children in international settings. It also aims to examine causes of major health problems and possible approaches to improving the health of women and children in resource-poor countries. The unit covers a variety of issues in women's and children's health, including approaches to prevention of maternal and fetal, neonatal and child mortality, poverty, mother to child HIV transmission, women and violence, family planning, diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia, and vaccine preventable diseases.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 4
Commencing semesters: 2
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: MIPH5115
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No
Our courses that offer this unit of study
- Master of Health Communication
- Graduate Diploma in Health Communication
- Graduate Certificate in Health Communication
- Master of Public Health
- Master of International Public Health
- Master of Qualitative Health Research
- Master of Public Health (Professional Practice)
- Graduate Diploma in Public Health
- Graduate Diploma in International Public Health
- Graduate Diploma in Qualitative Health Research
- Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Health Research
- Medicine Postgraduate Non-Degree
- Medicine Postgraduate Cross-Institutional