HBS107 - Understanding Health

Unit details

Year

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Kris Vingrys
Trimester 3: Kris Vingrys
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: HBSM107
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

Online independent learning and 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar per week.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent learning and 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week.

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Content

This interdisciplinary unit examines the complex range of interactions that influence the health of individuals and populations through a determinants approach to health and wellbeing, highlighting Indigenous perspectives and other priority populations. This includes a range of determinants of health related to selected health issues in urban and rural Australia, as well as in global contexts.

Topics include: determinants of health including social, cultural, environmental, and biological risk and protective factors; approaches to health including inclusive practice, health promotion and settings for health promotion; and local and global health care systems and policy frameworks.

Learning Outcomes

ULO These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
ULO1

Critically discuss concepts of health and health experiences locally and globally, including perspectives of Indigenous people and other priority population groups.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Compare and contrast how a range of determinants of health contribute to health outcomes in population groups.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Analyse the role of health systems, health programs and government policy in addressing determinants of health to support population health outcomes.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Apply digital literacy skills to identify credible sources of health information relating to determinants of health and their role in health outcomes in population groups.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5

Demonstrate an understanding of health using inclusive oral, written and interpersonal communication skills in individual and teamwork.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1: Individual Written Assessment: Learning Reflection

800 words

20%

  • Week 4

Assessment 2: Individual Assessment: Oral Presentation

10 minutes
(1200 words equivalent)

30%

  • Week 6

Assessment 3: Individual and group assessment: team presentation and peer feedback

Team charter - 200 words
Peer feedback - 1000 words
Team presentation - 10 minutes, 800 words speaker notes

50%

  • Team charter: Week 8
  • Peer feedback: Week 10
  • Team presentation: Week 11

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

The texts and reading list for HBS107 can be found via the University Library.

Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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