Health Policy
Table of units of study: Health Policy
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Core units |
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| Core units for graduate certificate students are HPOL5000, HPOL5001 and HPOL5003 | |||
| Core units for graduate diploma students are HPOL5000, HPOL5001, HPOL5003 and HPOL5007 | |||
| HPOL5000 Introduction to Health Policy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| HPOL5001 Economics and Finance for Health Policy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| HPOL5003 Analysing Health Policy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| HPOL5007 Global Health Policy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| HPOL5008 Evidence into Policy and Practice |
6 | C HPOL5000 and HPOL5001 |
Semester 1 |
| HPOL5009 Health Policy Project |
6 | P HPOL5003 C HPOL5008 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Elective units |
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| BETH5104 Bioethics, Law and Society |
6 | A A three-year undergraduate degree in science, medicine, nursing, allied health sciences, philosophy/ethics, sociology/anthropology, history, or other relevant field, or by special permission |
Semester 1 |
| BETH5203 Ethics and Public Health |
6 | A A three-year undergraduate degree in science, medicine, nursing, allied health sciences, philosophy/ethics, sociology/anthropology, history, or other relevant field, or by special permission. N BETH5206 |
Semester 2 |
| BETH5206 Introduction to Public Health Ethics |
2 | N BETH5203 |
Semester 2a |
| CISS6004 Health and Security |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MEDF5005 Health Research Methods and Ethics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MIPH5135 Health Systems in Developing Countries |
4 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5024 Obesity and Health Promotion |
2 | A Core MPH content, especially health promotion/disease prevention and epidemiology P PUBH5010, PUBH5033 and PUBH5020 N PUBH5021 |
Int August |
| PUBH5025 Physical Activity and Public Health |
2 | A Content of Core MPH electives noted as prerequisites P PUBH5010, PUBH5033, (PUBH5031 or QUAL5005) N PUBH5022 |
Int August |
| PUBH5302 Health Economic Evaluation |
4 | P (PUBH5010 and PUBH5018) or (HPOL5001 as a prerequisite and HPOL5003 as a co-requisite) |
Int Sept |
| PUBH5307 Advanced Health Economic Evaluation |
2 | P PUBH5018 and PUBH5010 C PUBH5205 and PUBH5302 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Int October |
| PUBH5308 Health Workforce Policy Analysis |
2 | Int October |
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| PUBH5309 Translational Health |
2 | Semester 2b |
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| PUBH5414 Public Health Advocacy |
2 | Int Sept |
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| PUBH5418 Tobacco Control in the 21st Century |
6 | Int August |
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| PUBH5420 Public Health Advocacy Strategies |
4 | Semester 2b |
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| PUBH5422 Health and Risk Communication |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5500 Advanced Qualitative Health Research |
6 | N QUAL5005 |
Semester 1 |
| QUAL5002 Qualitative Methodologies & Study Design |
6 | A Basic understanding of the nature of qualitative knowledge and the processes of qualitative research. C PUBH5500 Departmental permission is required for students who have not completed PUBH5500. |
Int May |
| QUAL5003 Qualitative Research Analysis & Writing |
6 | A Basic understanding of the nature of qualitative knowledge and types of qualitative data. P PUBH5500 |
Semester 2 |
| Students may be allowed to enrol in elective units of study that are not on this list with the prior approval of both the course coordinator and the unit of study coordinator. | |||