M4X Bachelor of Health (Public Health) Professional Honours

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Overview 2020

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 1 Years, up to a maximum of 5 Years
Duration
Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students

NOTE: This course is now in teach-out and is no longer accepting applications. Please see the Bachelor of Health (Public Health) Professional Honours (54W)

This program introduces and consolidates fundamental principles of public health in Australia and globally. It encourages students to think broadly about factors that affect health and wellbeing including social, environmental, cultural, economic, political and structural issues. It aims to provide students with advanced knowledge and skills to address challenges to public health through effective public health practice that is collaborative and multidisciplinary. Critical thinking, scientific and analytical competencies are emphasized throughout this course which builds core skills essential to health, health improvement and health services research, planning and evaluation of programs and policy formulation. The course then extends knowledge, skills and application into one of four specialist streams: Epidemiology, Environment and Food, Health Services or Remote and Polar Medicine. The public health graduate program has been developed in close collaboration with industry. This ensures that teaching is linked closely into current policy and practice and builds on the networks that are essential to effective public health practice.This program is relevant to those who work within public health as well as those wanting to move into the field of public health. The graduate diploma comprises coursework and involves specialisation into one of four streams which are Epidemiology, Environment and Food, Health Services and Remote and Polar Medicine.

Learning outcomes

The Bachelor of Health (Public Health) Professional Honours qualifies individuals who apply a body of advanced knowledge and skills related to public health in a range of contexts to undertake professional or highly skilled professional work and as a pathway for further learning.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Health (Public Health) Professional Honours will

Integrate and relate advanced, specialised knowledge of public health in: health monitoring and surveillance, disease prevention and control, health protection, health promotion, health policy planning, management, leadership and evidence based professional public health practice and research methods to professional practice in different aspects of health and health care.
Identify, manage, synthesise, evaluate, and apply data and information about the social, economic, cultural and environmental determinants of health to improve population health and healthcare across diverse and complex contexts.
Critique the quality and relevance of contemporary health research to professional practice across a diverse and complex range of settings.
Analyse, generate and communicate effective and innovative responses to complex problems in the context of public health professional practice in collaboration with relevant multidisciplinary partners.
Exchange and translate knowledge, skills and ideas, communicating effectively with a range of audiences, using a range of modalities.
Apply learning to demonstrate autonomy, judgement, adaptability and responsibility as a public health professional identifying pathways for further learning.

Career outcomes

A career in Public Health can serve a variety of societal purposes, such as:

Improving health
Protecting health
Maintaining and raising standards of health and social care
Working with information (health intelligence)
Working in academic Public Health (teaching and researching)
Leading strategic planning, management and policy development.

As Public Health initiatives require inter-industry collaboration; people from a broad range of backgrounds can work in senior leadership and/or scientific roles in the field of Public Health. Just a fraction of career pathways include - exploring the spread of specific diseases amongst populations, developing new innovative technologies for mental health assessments, promoting safe and healthy nutrition.

A Master of Public Health also opens the door to further academic qualifications such as a PhD

Course structure

Year 1

CAM530

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Hobart	Semester 2
Hobart	Spring school (extended)

Courses & Units

Bachelor of Health (Public Health) Professional Honours (M4X)

Overview 2020

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Career outcomes

Course structure

Year 1

Systems Thinking in Public Health

Introduction to Epidemiology

Introduction to Public Health

Global Health Systems

Evaluating Health Interventions

Operational Aspects of Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments

Year 2

Introduction to Biostatistics

Health Services

Supervision & Leadership, Theory, Process & Practice

Translational Research and Health Service Innovation

Leadership in Health and Human Services

Evaluating Health Interventions

Health Economics

Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services

Epidemiology

Evaluating Health Interventions

Health Economics

Extended Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Life Course Epidemiology

Environment and Food

Evaluating Health Interventions

Health Economics

Environmental Health

Communicable disease epidemiology

Advanced Food Safety Management

Remote and Polar Medicine

Medicine in Extreme Environments

E-Health

Human Behaviour in Extreme Environments

Expedition Medicine

Practical Skills for Remote Health Care

Entry requirements

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