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Unit of Study IHE72010 - Social Determinants of Health (2017)

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Unit description

Highlights the fact that in all instances, marginalised and dominated populations suffer a greater burden of disease. Theories of social determination, evidence-based evaluations and bias identification will be compared.

Unit content

Topic 1: Causation health and causation health inequity
Topic 2: Social Determinants
Topic 3: An Equitable Evidence Base
Topic 4: Methodological Diversity
Topic 5: Evidence Synthesis and Situation analysis

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Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 critique the principles of social determination and identify relevant social issues and community contexts that impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people
2 evaluate equity frameworks to reveal internal bias and expose social factors in problem identification
3 critically analyse social interventions and health and wellbeing movements from a social determinant perspective.

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

  1. critique the principles of social determination and identify relevant social issues and community contexts that impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. evaluate equity frameworks to reveal internal bias and expose social factors in problem identification
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. critically analyse social interventions and health and wellbeing movements from a social determinant perspective.
    • GA1:
    • GA3:

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