Overview
This unit will develop student understanding of public health nutrition, which encompasses the biological, social and environmental dimensions of health in promoting and maintaining the nutritional health of populations. Nutritional issues facing population groups in Australia and the role of public health practitioners in promoting health and preventing disease will be considered. Frameworks, policies and legislation relating to nutrition and health promotion practice will be explored along with practical aspects of public health nutrition practice.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: BMED19006 or NUTR12002
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2018
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student formal evaluation
Students appreciated the self-learning aspects of this unit but more lectures may be appreciated by students requiring additional support.
Additional lectures or tutorials will be provided in future terms of delivery.
- Examine ecological issues of food supply and food policy.
- Interpret government policy on nutrition guidelines, food standards and food regulation legislation.
- Describe food consumption trends and nutrition related problems of at-risk Australian groups and communities.
- Demonstrate understanding of public health nutrition concepts and how they relate to the health of our populations and communities.
- Undertake research which illustrates systematic analysis of a current issue in public health nutrition.
- Demonstrate skills in data collection, analysis and reporting of public health nutrition data.
- Demonstrate skills in group education for public health nutrition promotion.
Per NPC1118
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 70% | |||||||
| 2 - Group Work - 30% | |||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 70% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Group Work - 30% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microsoft Excel
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.p.williams@cqu.edu.au
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Introduction & Orientation to our unit
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Module 1: Principles & Policy in Public Health Nutrition
Tutorial: Group work
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Module 2: Communities & Settings
Tutorial: Community profiles
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Module 3: Community Needs Assessments
Tutorial: Healthy Food Access Basket (HFAB) Surveys; Data collection, Data Entry and Data Files.
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HFAB data collection to be completed
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HFAB data entry due
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Module 4: Research Methods & Skills
Tutorial: Data Analysis, Tables, Graphs & Community Mapping
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Tutorial: Oral Presentations & Reporting
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Module 5: Reflective Practice & Communication
Tutorial: Logic Models
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Written report of community problem analysis due: Friday 18th May, 5.00 PM
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Logic model from community needs assessment due: Friday 25th May, 5.00 PM
Group Work - Community needs assessment through photovoice workshop Due: Week 11 Friday (25 May 2018) 5:00 pm AEST
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Online oral presentations will be scheduled this week
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1 Practical and Written Assessment
You will conduct a problem analysis of your community in relation to food access and affordability, and develop (I) a written report and (ii) online oral presentation that discusses your results.
To complete this task you will be required to:
- Research of previous food access and affordability studies in communities across Australia and development of a table of your findings that will be included in final written report -see #2 below) (10 marks)
- Development of a profile of your community that includes socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and a community map that will be included in final written report (see #2 below) (10 marks)
- Collecting food cost and availability data for your community using the Healthy Food Access Basket (HFAB) survey (Formative)
- Entering data from your community profile and HFAB surveys into a shared group datasheet (Formative)
- Conducting basic analysis of this group data including comparisons between different communities included in our group (Formative)
- Development of a written evidence-based report of your community problem analysis that includes at least two (2) tables that support discussion of your results (using APA table format) and one (1) figure that supports details of your community profile (30 marks).
NOTE: your final report will be approximately 2000 words in length (+/- 10%) and include at least 10 references (not included in word count)
Written report due: 5.00 PM Friday 18th May (AEST); Oral presentation due for presentation to our class group in week 12 (exact day and time will be established in consultation with enrolled students)
Review/Exam Week Monday (4 June 2018)
Detailed marking criteria will be available in the unit Assessment Guide that will be available in the Assessment
Resources tab in Moodle. These criteria will be based on:
Written report:
- Quality of writing
- Competence in addressing all aspects of the tasks
- Formulation of arguments, critical analysis, interpretation and explanation
- Relevance of discussion
- Accuracy in use of supporting evidence
- Organisation of report
Oral presentation:
- Background information
- Confidence and competence in delivery of presentation
- Clarity and flow of presentation
- Body language during presentation
- Content and organisation of slides
- Engagement during presentation
- Examine ecological issues of food supply and food policy.
- Interpret government policy on nutrition guidelines, food standards and food regulation legislation.
- Describe food consumption trends and nutrition related problems of at-risk Australian groups and communities.
- Demonstrate understanding of public health nutrition concepts and how they relate to the health of our populations and communities.
- Undertake research which illustrates systematic analysis of a current issue in public health nutrition.
- Demonstrate skills in data collection, analysis and reporting of public health nutrition data.
- Demonstrate skills in group education for public health nutrition promotion.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Group Work
You will participate in two (2) online workshops to explore and document community specific factors that may be helping or hindering your community to make healthy food choices, and develop a logic model for a proposed intervention that relates to workshop outcomes. This task includes two (2) components:
1. Photovoice workshops (20 marks) - to complete this component you will be required to:
- Collect a photographic image or artefact that you personally consider to best represent a factor that helps or hinders you or your community to make healthy food choices;
- Submit this image/artefact to the group workshop space (in Moodle)
- Attend an initial online workshop (between week 4 and 6) where images/artefacts will be explored and discussed in small groups (4-5 students). NOTE: Key outcomes from each group workshop will be collated by the unit coordinator and all images/artefacts and main ideas will be shared with the larger group via our group workshop space in Moodle.
- Attend a second online workshop (between week 7 and 9) where key strategies to help overcome barriers and/or promote healthy food choices in your community, will be identified by the group.
- Interpret the results of the photovoice workshops as they apply to your own community context, and
- Develop a logic model for a planned intervention for your community.
- This logic model will be submitted to our group workshop space in Moodle so that all students may contribute comment and discussion of your model.
- This logic model will also be submitted for marking and comment from the unit coordinator. Students are not expected to peer review or 'mark' this task.
Week 11 Friday (25 May 2018) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 12 Friday (1 June 2018)
Detailed marking criteria will be available in the unit Assessment Guide that will be available in the Assessment Resources tab in Moodle.
For the photovoice workshops marks will be allocated for attendance (5 marks each workshop) and contributions (5 marks each workshop).
For the logic model, marks will be allocated for completeness, presentation, relevance, clarity and quality of display.
No submission method provided.
- Examine ecological issues of food supply and food policy.
- Interpret government policy on nutrition guidelines, food standards and food regulation legislation.
- Describe food consumption trends and nutrition related problems of at-risk Australian groups and communities.
- Demonstrate understanding of public health nutrition concepts and how they relate to the health of our populations and communities.
- Demonstrate skills in data collection, analysis and reporting of public health nutrition data.
- Demonstrate skills in group education for public health nutrition promotion.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Team Work
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
