HSH103 - Health Protection
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Justin Lawson |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 11 x 2 hour seminars for on-campus students. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 11 scheduled online 2 hour seminars for Online students. All online sessions are recorded. |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit will cover approaches to assessing, preventing and controlling environmental hazards that pose human health and safety risks. In order to understand environmental hazards the use of environmental health data, including toxicology and ecology, will be employed. The unit comprises the study of key national and international environmental health agencies, as well as regulatory programs, guidelines and authorities that control environmental health. This unit will frame health protection from public health and ecologically sustainable development perspectives, to further understand contemporary health challenges.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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| ULO1 | Identify and critique key national and international environmental health agencies, as well as regulatory programs, guidelines and authorities that control environmental health issues. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Explain relationships between environmental health safety standards, risks and related management procedures. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Review and interpret environmental health data, including toxicology and ecology. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Identify best-practice for promoting environmental health, health protection and ecologically sustainable development. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Critique plans and strategies that define and characterise the environmental factors that influence health. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 2:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Written report | 1500 words | 35% |
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| Assessment 2: Case study report | 1800 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 3: Short answer questions | 1000 words | 25% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
Ghebrehewet, S, Stewart, AG, Baxter, D, Shears, P, Conrad, D, & Kliner, M (eds) 2016. Health Protection: Principles and Practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Copies of the essential learning resources can be found as eBook sources using the Talis system, which is linked in the unit site.
Recommended texts
Readings to be posted on the unit site.
Unit Fee Information
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Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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