HSH770 - Health Protection
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Justin Lawson Trimester 3: Shane Kavanagh |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | HSH103 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | Students are expected to attend 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar each week, and complete self-directed online learning activities via the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Equivalent to campus lecture content weekly delivery; 1 x 2 hour seminar conducted via Zoom on weekly basis throughout seminar. |
Content
This unit will cover approaches to assessing, preventing and controlling environmental hazards that pose human health and safety risks. To understand environmental hazards, use of environmental health data, including toxicology and ecology will be employed. The unit comprises the study of key national and international environmental health agencies, as well as regulatory programs, guidelines and authorities that control environmental health. This unit will frame health protection within the fields of public health, planetary health, OneHealth, and EcoHealth to further understand the challenges being faced in the Anthropocene era.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | |
| ULO1 | Identify key national and international environmental health agencies, programs and authorities. Apply the regulatory programs and guidelines of these agencies to control environmental health threats. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Critically analyse and apply environmental safety standards to evaluate individual, organisational and governmental compliance. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Review and interpret environmental health data, including toxicology and ecology data and assess risk to inform public health actions. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Develop communications for stakeholders regarding environmental health, health protection and ecologically sustainable development. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Generate contextually sensitive and ethical plans for specific national and international environmental health and health protection challenges. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment task 1: Case study | Pre-recorded presentation (maximum 10 minutes) | 20% |
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| Assessment 2: Report | 2000 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 3: Risk Assessment Plan | 2000 words | 40% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
Ghebrehewet, S, Stewart, AG, Baxter, D, Shears, P, Conrad, D, & Kliner, M (eds) 2016. Health Protection: Principles and Practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Copies of the essential learning resources can be found as eBook sources using the Talis system, which is linked in the unit site.
Recommended texts
Readings to be posted on the unit site.
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