This subject covers essential knowledge that clinicians, community health workers, health service administrators and public health practitioners require. Understanding the patterns and distribution of health outcomes across populations demands public health professionals to be able to examine the influence of the social determinants of health. Social epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology that focuses on the influence of social factors on individual and population level health, and grew out of the public health tradition of examining health inequalities relating to social class. This unit examines the complexities of social patterns of health and health data needed within and between populations to explore health inequities and inequalities. This unit will develop your skills in critiquing interpreting and translating public health findings from social epidemiology. You will build foundational skills in epidemiology and statistics which can then be applied in a social epidemiological context. Data and statistics related to the social determinants of health will be examined, with a focus on ethical principles related to Indigenous Data Sovereignty. You will be introduced to knowledge translation and implementation science frameworks, and consider their utility in guiding the effective dissemination of social epidemiological findings to guide policy and improve health outcomes.
Level | Postgraduate |
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Unit Level | 8 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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).
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Online Quiz(zes) | 10% |
2. Written Assessment | 25% |
3. Presentation | 25% |
4. Literature Review or Systematic Review | 40% |
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%).
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Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 83.58% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 27.63% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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4 - Literature Review or Systematic Review | • | • | • | • |
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6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | • | |
7 - Leadership | • | • |
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3 - Presentation | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
4 - Literature Review or Systematic Review | • | • | • | • |