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Unit Synopsis
Public Health Practice in the Cross-Cultural Community develops advanced knowledge and applied skills for effective public health engagement in culturally diverse contexts. The unit focuses on critically examining how social, cultural, structural, and systemic factors interact to influence health behaviours, health outcomes, and access to services across populations. You will develop the capacity to analyse complex public health challenges, apply evidence-informed perspectives, and engage with ethical and culturally responsive approaches to public health decision-making. Emphasis is placed on translating theory into practice through the evaluation, design, and improvement of public health initiatives relevant to real-world cross-cultural settings. The unit will prepare you to work effectively with communities, organisations, and stakeholders, demonstrating advanced judgement, cultural responsiveness, and professional accountability consistent with contemporary public health practice.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: PBHL20009 Health and Wellbeing in the Cross-Cultural Community. CC59 Bachelor of Public Health students need 96 credit points to enrol in 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 |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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 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 Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 50% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 50% |
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%).
Past Exams
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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.
Source: Direct feedback from students
Students would like more direction in selecting a case study topic.
More explicit suggested topics should be provided that students can choose from to overcome the problem of less than ideal choices that do not allow for the assesment requirements to be thoroughly addressed.
Topics were provided to students to support their assessment preparation.
Source: Student feedback and self-reflection
To adjust the due date of Assessment 1 from Week 8 to Week 6 to provide students with increased spacing between the two assessments, supporting better workload management and reduced pressure.
The due date for Assessment 1 should be moved from Week 8 to Week 6.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate complex public health issues by examining the interaction of social, cultural, structural, and systemic determinants within diverse community contexts
- Critically appraise public health strategies, policies, and ethical frameworks to assess their effectiveness, equity, and cultural responsiveness in cross-cultural settings
- Formulate culturally responsive public health initiatives that address community-based health issues through the informed integration of theory, evidence, and contextual analysis
- Develop feasible methodological and implementation approaches to support the evaluation or analysis of public health initiatives using appropriate existing evidence or secondary data sources
- Propose informed improvements to public health policies and practices through the integration of relevant public health perspectives and critical engagement with scholarly evidence.
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| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | |||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |