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Unit of Study NATM5006 - Integrative Women's Health (2023)

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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

Learners explore contemporary impacts to women's health and disease through the understanding of pathology in women's health. Learners will explore models of care to achieve woman-centred health care and critically describe appropriate integrative approaches to managing diseases specific to women. Learners will also be equipped to recognise acute emergencies in women's health and seek appropriate courses of action.

Unit content

  1. Influences on women's health through the lifespan
  2. Functional and organic pathology in women’s health
  3. Models of care and women's health
  4. Integrative approaches to women’s health
  5. Common health issues specific to women's health
  6. Acute emergencies in women’s health

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Location Domestic International
Online
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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:

discuss women's health and disease through the lifespan

critically analyse health care models specific to woman centeredness

critically describe integrative approaches to manage women’s health

recognise acute emergencies in women’s health in contemporary health care

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