HSH701 - Principles and Practice of Public Health
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: Carah Figueroa Trimester 3: Shane Kavanagh |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 3 hours per week comprising 1 hour weekly lecture (recorded and accessible online) and 2 hour weekly seminar |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 3 hours per week comprising 1 hour weekly lecture (recorded and accessible online) and 2 hour weekly online seminar |
| 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
In this unit, students are provided with an integrated overview of the ways in which different theories and disciplinary perspectives have informed public health principles and practices both in the past and present. The unit provides the foundations for a contextual understanding of the specific methods of public health research, policy development and program planning and implementation.
Principles and Practice of Public Health is a 'glue' unit for the study of public health, drawing linkages between areas that may at first sight appear quite disparate. This unit aims to provide students with an overview of public health as an organised global and local effort to promote and protect the health of the public. The unit will immerse students in evidence based public health in exploring public health problems, their causes and solutions. Students will be encouraged to position themselves within public health debates.
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 | Describe the history, principles and major fields of practice in public health and apply this knowledge to contemporary health issues and their contexts. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO2 | Apply epidemiological, clinical, social, behavioural and other perspectives to analyse current and emerging public health issues, contexts and practices. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Use digital skills and technologies to locate, critically analyse, evaluate, synthesize and present information about public health issues, their causes and solutions. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Propose effective responses to current and emerging public health issues that demonstrate mastery of the underlying principles and evidence-base and disciplines of public health and its major fields of practice. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Demonstrate constructive teamwork skills to support self and peers within a contemporary public health context. | GLO7: Teamwork |
| ULO6 | Demonstrate skills to professionally communicate public health information to a variety of audiences. | 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: MCQ Quiz | Multiple choice question (online) test | 20% |
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| Assessment 2: Ministerial briefing paper | Individual written response of 2500 words | 50% |
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| Assessment 3: Group presentation plus individual reflection | Part A: 500 word individual written reflection on the team collaboration Part B: 10 minute group presentation | 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 HSH701 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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