Public Health Advocacy
PUBH5414
This unit aims to familiarise students with the strategies of public health advocacy and to provide skills in content and discourse analysis of media coverage of health and medical issues. This unit covers the role of media advocacy in advancing public health policy; framing public health issues; news gathering, reporting and editing; strategies for media advocacy; political lobbying in public health advocacy. Teaching and learning activities include interactive lectures, case studies and small group work. Students will be expected to prepare for the sessions. Requirements will be distributed prior to the first day.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 2
Commencing semesters: 109
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: PUBH5414
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 Indigenous Health (Substance Use)
- 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