Course overview
The course aims to build understanding of priorities for children and young people across health domains - physical, emotional, sexual and reproductive - understanding how important frameworks and concepts unite these areas and provide a guide for action. Students will consider important shifts in the ways that these priorities are addressed, moving away from approaches emphasising control and regulation to those guided by social determinants of health and human rights perspectives. Key concepts include autonomy and discrimination and their implications for health. Students will develop skills in systems thinking and evaluation, considering how to support families and communities in caring for children and young people.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the priorities for children and young people across physical, emotional, sexual and reproductive health domains
- Map the impacts of supports, infrastructure and opportunities in the wider community on healthy development of children and adolescents by applying the social determinants of health and human rights frameworks to specific issues in health domains
- Explain the concepts of autonomy and discrimination, including why these are important for improving health
- Identify and critique policies, regulations, and activities that aim to improve health from childhood to adult life
- Compare current priorities and activities in Australia with those in other parts of the world, or other times in history, including explanation of reasons for differences
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 59796
Section WS01
Size 40
Available 36
Class number 59795
Section WS02
Size 40
Available 32
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