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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Unit aim
Introduces the science of population health and disease. Students will study the principles, methods and application of epidemiology in the identification, control and prevention of disease in the community.
Unit content
- General principles in epidemiology
- Measuring health
- Descriptive epidemiology
- Association and causality
- Analytic epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology and health policy
- Screening and prevention of chronic disease
- Communicable disease and epidemics
- Determinants of health
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | evaluate the current health status of Australians in the context of population health history | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
2 | explain the role of epidemiology in the determination of causation in communicable and non-communicable disease, and the relevance of environmental, social and cultural determinants of health | Knowledge of a discipline | Cultural competence | |||||
3 | perform basic methods of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
4 | source scientific literature related to common questions on health and disease and critically evaluate different types of epidemiological studies | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | |||||
5 | evaluate the approaches to disease surveillance and the underlying strategies for disease prevention | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
6 | critically review the principles required to investigate outbreaks and conduct screening to detect early disease | Intellectual rigour |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- evaluate the current health status of Australians in the context of population health
history
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- explain the role of epidemiology in the determination of causation in communicable
and non-communicable disease, and the relevance of environmental, social and cultural
determinants of health
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA7: Cultural competence
- perform basic methods of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- source scientific literature related to common questions on health and disease and
critically evaluate different types of epidemiological studies
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- evaluate the approaches to disease surveillance and the underlying strategies for
disease prevention
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- critically review the principles required to investigate outbreaks and conduct screening
to detect early disease
- GA1: Intellectual rigour