Public Health: Achievements & Challenges
PUBH5030
This unit provides a critical overview of foundational aspects of public health, introducing fundamental concepts and conceptual and historical contexts through which to view contemporary issues in public health. The unit begins with a review of human health status through history and the changing roles and main challenges that drove development of modern public health theory and practice. It then provides an overview of contemporary challenges in public health policy and program development through exposure to leading commentators, activists and theoreticians on public health. The particular problem of societal inequities and inequalities as drivers of health status is addressed. Two symposia expose students to the importance of multi-disciplinary approaches to contemporary health problems and to an anticipation of major problems that public health practitioners will be challenged to develop solutions for over the near future (5-20 years).
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 2
Commencing semesters: 103
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: PUBH5030
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No