Course overview
This course aims to introduce students interested in health sciences careers such as public health practice, health-related research, or clinical practice, to a population view of health
Course learning outcomes
- Identify major causes of morbidity (sickness) and mortality (deaths) in Australia and globally
- Describe public health problems and how they are measured using basic epidemiological terminology and calculations
- Evaluate how social determinants and other risk factors for communicable and chronic disease influence personal and population health
- Describe the basic principles and salient features of health promotion and disease prevention to improve population health
- Evaluate the roles and functions of policies and diverse stakeholders, including in government departments and health systems, in defining, influencing and responding to public health issues
- Identify ethical and economic issues associated with policies and interventions aimed at improving health
- Identify, critique, synthesise, report and reference appropriate public health literature
- Participate constructively, as an individual or within groups, in learning activities