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PBHL20001 Understanding Public Health
Understanding Public Health
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General Information

Overview

Understanding Public Health introduces you to ways of thinking and perspectives that form the foundations of public health. These include examining the received wisdom of public health from the last 200 years such as different models of health and theoretical frameworks, and critiquing the approaches used in the past. You will be introduced to the social-ecological model of health that forms the basis of community-based and community-led public health. As such, you will consider the different types of leadership required for various approaches to public health practice and consider your own positionality. You will explore the differences between evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence and how these types of evidence can apply to the various approaches in public health. Finally, you will be introduced to strengths-based and disease prevention approaches as they are applied in public health.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 8
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 8
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

There are no requisites for this unit.

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Offerings For Term 1 - 2025

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Sydney

Attendance Requirements

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Previous Student Feedback

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 Direct comments from students

Feedback

Students often comment that the unit is eye opening because they had no previous knowledge of Public Health as a field and were unaware of the evolving state of health. Current issues are of great interest and should feature in class and material.

Recommendation

Emerging issues that students can read about in the news should be included in class discussion as well as in readings and the study guide.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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