HBS107 - Understanding Health
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online Trimester 3: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Jennifer David Trimester 3: Trish Taylor |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Online independent learning and 1x2 hour on campus seminar per week. |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Online independent learning and 1x2 hour online seminar per week. |
Content
This interdisciplinary unit examines a determinants approach to health and wellbeing, including: the complex range of interactions that influence the health of individuals and populations; the determinants of selected health issues in urban and rural Australia, as well as in global contexts, and explores a range of models and approaches and their impact on health outcomes.
Topics include: The concepts of health, the social determinants of health, health systems, the biological and environmental determinants, health promotion, indigenous health, settings for health, marginalised populations and global health.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Adopt a global perspective to identify and discuss the different concepts of health and how they differ across population groups. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Identify current population health issues and explain how the determinants of health underpin these issues. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Demonstrate oral and written communication skills and use digital technologies to locate credible sources of information related to the social determinants of health to support ideas and arguments in individual and team work. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO4 | Critically analyse how determinants of health influence government policy and are linked to population health outcome. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Identify the responsibilities of governments in Australia to improve population health. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Identify individual attributes to support your career development and interpret your findings through determinants of health theory. | 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: Managing My Career Written Report | 1000 words | 25% |
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| Assessment 2: A Health Plan Written Report | 1600 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 3: Health Profile Group Oral Presentation | 10 minutes | 35% |
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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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HBS107 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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