HSH112 - Local and Global Environments for Health
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Nicole Bruges |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | HSHM112 |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2 hour scheduled on-campus seminar per week |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period 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 introduce key concepts around environmental health and will explore the relationships between the natural, built, social, economic, political and digital environments and human health. This unit will also introduce the concepts of sustainable development, ecosystem health and environmental justice. The content of the unit will be framed within a public health and health promotion context, as well as the socio-ecological determinants of health framework.
This unit comprises the study of: knowledge of past, present and emergent environmental health concerns, including infectious disease, biological and chemical exposures, population growth, urbanisation, climate change, consumption and waste; environments for health: the positive influences of the natural/physical, built, social, economic and political environments on human health; the role of the natural/physical, built, social, economic and political environments in human health threats; an appreciation of the different space components of environmental health: individual, neighbourhood, institutional, national, regional, global and intergenerational; human impacts on the environment, including Indigenous cultures, industrialised countries, developing countries; sustainable development and environmental justice; critical reflection on the changing context of environments and health over time.
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, analyse, and describe the socio-ecological determinants of health. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Identify and analyse individuals’ and organisations’ impact on the health and sustainability of local and global environments. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Discuss and critically analyse viewpoints, attitudes and beliefs relating to local and global environmental health, nature and sustainability issues. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Promote environmental health and sustainability to specific audiences using evidence-based and theoretically-informed communications. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Case Study Report A | 1200 words | 30% |
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| Assessment 2: Case Study Report B | 1600 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 3: Short answer questions | 1200 words | 30% |
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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
The texts and reading list for HSH112 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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