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Unit of Study HLTH5006 - Principles & Practice of Lifestyle Medicine I: Foundations (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces students to the field of Lifestyle Medicine, and the foundations of the discipline.

Unit content

  1. Introduction to lifestyle medicine.
  2. Determinants of health and lifestyle disease.
  3. Nutrition and health.
  4. Physical activity and health.
  5. Sleep and health.
  6. Practitioner health and wellbeing.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Term1,3
Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Examine the discipline and practice of lifestyle medicine.

Examine the correlation between the determinants of health and lifestyle disease.

Critically examine nutrition, physical activity and sleep, and their relationship to health.

Identify approaches to monitor and support practitioner health and wellbeing.

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