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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Anti-requisites
SOC72001- Aboriginal Social Realities
Unit aim
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
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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:
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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:
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evaluate equity frameworks to reveal internal bias and expose social factors in problem identification
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA6:
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critically analyse social interventions and health and wellbeing movements from a social determinant perspective.
- GA1:
- GA3:
Prescribed texts
- Carson, B, Dunbar, T, Chenhall, RD & Bailie, R (eds), 2007, Social Determinants of Indigenous Health, 1st edn, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW. ISBN: 9781741751420.