Introductory Indigenous Health Promotion

PUBH5037

This core unit of study will provide students with an introduction to and critical overview of evidence-based prevention and health promotion as a fundamental approach to addressing chronic disease prevention and reducing health inequalities in populations, as applied to Indigenous health. It will address: (i) principles underlying disease prevention and health promotion, (ii) evidence-based planning disease prevention and health promotion programs, and (iii) implementing and evaluating health promotion programs for disease prevention, concentrating on strategies most likely to be effective and accepted in an Indigenous context.This unit is intended to facilitate transition arrangements for students who enrolled prior to 2010 and may only be taken by such students.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Postgraduate

Credit points: 2

Commencing semesters: 105

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: PUBH5037

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: No

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