Overview 2021
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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. |
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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
Systems thinking is an approach to public health that allows us to understand and manage complex problems. The purpose of this unit is to introduce key systems thinking concepts and practical methods to address complexity to improve the health of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for CAM530 Systems Thinking in Public Health
This unit explores the principles, theories and practice of epidemiology. Students are provided with a comprehensive introduction to the collection and interpretation of epidemiological data within the framework of health, health care delivery and human services. The unit content covers…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit introduces the scope of public health practice in the 21st century and the social, political and economic context within which public health practitioners operate. The unit combines theoretical and practical material to assist students to understand the social…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Globally, health systems are tasked with responding to contemporary challenges and the related disease burden and health needs of their population. This unit takes a systems approach to examine how health systems are designed, the key components, who pays, and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system leadership. It provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This unit developsstudent competencies in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit provides an introduction to the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments. It starts by considering the characteristics of different types of remote populations and remote medical practice, the understanding of which is vital to providing appropriate health care.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for CAM503 Operational Aspects of Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments
Year 2
The aims of this unit are: to introduce fundamental concepts of biostatistics and provide a background in descriptive and analytical methods that are used to estimate association between variables. This unit covers statistical theory, data entry and manipulation methods, data…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Health Services
This unit provides a framework for effective leadership and supervision: supervision in context, direct supervision, constructive feedback, structure and content of meetings, dimensions of supervision, quality of the supervisory relationship and training for supervisors.On completion participants should have a better…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM521 Supervision & Leadership, Theory, Process & Practice
This unit provides a framework for understanding the links between knowledge and practice. It is about considering the when, why and, importantly, how of translational research in practice. It is also designed to encourage the development of the capacity of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM538 Translational Research and Health Service Innovation
This unit provides health and human service professionals with the opportunity to critically analyse a range of contemporary leadership frameworks and theories. There is a focus on the exploration and practical application of theories and techniques to improve understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM539 Leadership in Health and Human Services
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system leadership. It provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This unit developsstudent competencies in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit aims to provide participants with a basic understanding of health economics, its value and limitations. It will familiarise participants with the application of economic theory to health and health care issues, and review and analyse policy and practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This Unit explores the nature of change within the broader environmental and organisational context. It will include exploration of current theories and research around issues relating to leading and managing as well as diffusion of innovation.Strategies for successful implementation of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM722 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services
Epidemiology
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system leadership. It provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This unit developsstudent competencies in…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit aims to provide participants with a basic understanding of health economics, its value and limitations. It will familiarise participants with the application of economic theory to health and health care issues, and review and analyse policy and practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit builds upon the courses CAM528 Introduction to Epidemiology and CAM625 Introduction to Biostatistics. You will consolidate and expand your knowledge on epidemiology and will learn biostatistics in an applied manner. The goal is to introduce you to the…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM627 Extended Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Life course epidemiology explores the long term influences on health of exposures occurring earlier in life, for example during gestation, infancy, childhood or earlier in adulthood. This unit explores the principles, theories and practice of this important field of epidemiology,…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Environment and Food
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system leadership. It provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This unit developsstudent competencies in…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit aims to provide participants with a basic understanding of health economics, its value and limitations. It will familiarise participants with the application of economic theory to health and health care issues, and review and analyse policy and practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit will provide a broad understanding of current environmental health concepts. Students undertaking this course will gain insight into how our health is influenced by our environments and ecology, and the likely impacts of climate change and benefits of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Communicable Disease Epidemiology will explore communicable diseases of humans from an epidemiological perspective. It will provide an introductory overview of the basic biological knowledge needed to understand the interactions within and between populations of microbes, human and other animals. Students…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM626 Communicable disease epidemiology
Traditional approaches to food safety assurance are failing to keep up with the modern food industry. In response, and to harmonise international trade in food, food safety management is moving to a "risk-based approach that relies strongly on synthesis of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Remote and Polar Medicine
This unit is concerned with the practice of health-care in extreme environments. It starts with generic considerations before moving on to examine the following extreme environments in detail: cold, high altitude, desert, maritime, underwater, aviation, and space. The challenges of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for CAM619 Medicine in Extreme Environments
Explores the changes occurring in the structure and delivery of health services as a result of technologies such as the Internet and telehealth. The unit considers the impact of such technology on consumers, communities, health professionals and health services.…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
Extreme environments are so named due to the unique challenges they pose to human performance. In this online unit you will learn about the factors that characterise an environment as extreme, and how living and/or working in an extreme environment…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for KHB701 Human Behaviour in Extreme Environments
This unit is an intensive, residential course providing practical skills development to support on-line units offered in the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environment courses. The unit commences with a focus on basic knowledge and skills in the following domains:…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Remote and Extreme Environment Health-care practice requires health care providers to have an extended skill set and perform various tasks that are conventionally performed by other health care professionals. This unit provides a framework for learning and assessment in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for CAM630 Practical Skills for Remote Health Care
Entry requirements
Entry Requirements
Standard Entry: requires an undergraduate degree from an Australian higher education institution or the equivalent standard in any other institution. This includes a process to assess the equivalency of qualifications received from overseas institutions as approved by the Course Coordinator.
Alternative Entry: Where this standard is not able to be met the following alternative criteria for equivalency can be considered by the Course Coordinator:
- Five years of relevant work experience demonstrating the relevance of the course and the prospective student's capacity to successfully undertake postgraduate study including reading, writing, analysis and research.
A record of high achievement with any uncompleted undergraduate study (Distinction Average)
Articulation from
After the successful completion of an approved bachelor degree students can proceed to admission into the Professional Honours (Public Health).
Articulation to
Upon completion there is an articulated pathway of learning through to the Master level of the Public Health course and then through to the Professional Doctorate of Health for approved students.
Detailed Admissions Information
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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