PUB336 Gender Equity and Human Health
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| Unit code: | PUB336 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,488 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PUB336 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Nil |
| Coordinator: | Julie-Anne Carroll | jm.carroll@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Gender is a powerful determinant of human health globally. Men's, women’s and transgender health are driven strongly by social constructions of gender performance across the life-course. Men live shorter lives, have higher cancer, cardiovascular disease, and higher suicide rates. Women suffer from higher rates of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, dementia, interpersonal violence, rape, and poverty globally. Further, a binary view of gender is no longer considered useful from a public health perspective, as transgender people continue to suffer some of the highest rates of interpersonal violence and suicide globally. This unit will adopt a non-binary, social determinants approach to defining and studying gender from an intersectional perspective. It will emphasise how a focus on gender equity generates improvement in population health globally. This is a multidisciplinary and interprofessional unit and welcomes students from a wide range of courses.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Synthesise scholarly research to critique the social determinants of gender equity and human health;
- Critically evaluate policies and practices which impact on gendered aspects of health at government, community, family and individual levels;
- Identify a conceptual framework to analyse gendered health issues;
- Reflect on intersectional and diverse gender and sexuality perspectives, including consideration of other social determinants of human health
- Adapt and translate empirical research findings to persuade and engage health professional audiences of the importance of gender equity and human health issues.
Content
The unit covers the following topics:
- women’s health,
- men’s health,
- intersex and transgender health,
- gender as a social determinant of health,
- biological sex and health,
- intersectionality, and gender as it intersects with other drivers of health globally
- Indigenous and marginalised perspectives
- digital practices for advocating for marginalised groups
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures - delivered on-campus and offered synchronously online. Recordings are available.
- tutorials (separate online and on-campus offerings)
- self-directed online readings and learning materials
- real world examples of gender equity and human health
- group learning and peer feedback
In order to maximise your learning experience in this unit, each tutorial will be supported by set readings and a series of guided questions which you will be expected to consider prior to the tutorial.
Participation in tutorials engages you in small group discussion where diverse views and interpretation of literature develop your ability to express an opinion backed up by evidence. Your ability to think critically, ask questions of the literature in the real world context of the topics chosen for your research is a capability expected at a professional level.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on your learning at key points. You will be provided with feedback on each assessment item as you progress through the unit. You will contribute weekly reflections which will provide opportunity for self and peer feedback and be periodically reviewed by the teaching staff.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has three assessments:
1. Padlet Diary Entries - This will draw on the unit content from the material delivered in lectures and discussed in tutorials and provide an opportunity for you to critically reflect on what you have learned.
2. Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast - This will develop your ability to orally communicate research in an engaging and persuasive format. It will connect to specific topics covered in lectures and in-depth in tutorials. You will need to make big data, research, service provision and current advocacy efforts accessible and understandable to a health professional audience.
3. Research Essay - This will develop your research and academic writing skills to deeply investigate a gender equity phenomenon to produce a critical research essay.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Padlet Diary Entries
You will write ongoing critical reflections on lecture content, tutorial discussions and resources in the media, news, and journal articles relevant to the weekly topic. Your reflections will take into account intersectional and diverse gender and sexuality perspectives, including consideration of other social determinants such as Indigenous perspectives.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast
You will take on the role of apublic health professionals to create a podcast on a selected gender equity and human health topic for other health professionals. The podcast will be designed to promote the health and wellbeing of marginalised gender groups in relation to key health issue faced by that group.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research Essay
You will write a critical essay that researches a topic covered in any of the lectures in this unit during the semester. The essay will be supported by evidence and analysed using theory with the purpose of proposing strategies for change. The essay necessarily advocates for gender equity and human health.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
No resources needed
Risk Assessment Statement
Some of the information that will be shared during this unit could trigger some emotional responses for you and/or your peers. The unit will cover topics such as gender related violence and prejudice, race related violence and prejudice, experiences of marginalised groups and self-harm. It is very important that you monitor your own feelings and well-being as you study. You may need to take breaks and find helpful ways you can process the information. Information about accessing support at QUT and suggestions for self-care will be provided in the unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU52 Bachelor of Public Health
- Apply public health principles and evidence to improve population health outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Padlet Diary Entries, Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast, Research Essay - Critically analyse scholarly literature and effectively conduct research to inform evidence based public health practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Research Essay - Communicate with professional, non-professional and community audiences about public health using diverse technologies.
Relates to: ULO5, Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast - Apply culturally safe and inclusive approaches to work with diverse individuals, groups and communities, including Indigenous Australians.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Padlet Diary Entries, Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast, Research Essay
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | PUB336 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Nil |
Overview
Gender is a powerful determinant of human health globally. Men's, women’s and transgender health are driven strongly by social constructions of gender performance across the life-course. Men live shorter lives, have higher cancer, cardiovascular disease, and higher suicide rates. Women suffer from higher rates of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, dementia, interpersonal violence, rape, and poverty globally. Further, a binary view of gender is no longer considered useful from a public health perspective, as transgender people continue to suffer some of the highest rates of interpersonal violence and suicide globally. This unit will adopt a non-binary, social determinants approach to defining and studying gender from an intersectional perspective. It will emphasise how a focus on gender equity generates improvement in population health globally. This is a multidisciplinary and interprofessional unit and welcomes students from a wide range of courses.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Synthesise scholarly research to critique the social determinants of gender equity and human health;
- Critically evaluate policies and practices which impact on gendered aspects of health at government, community, family and individual levels;
- Identify a conceptual framework to analyse gendered health issues;
- Reflect on intersectional and diverse gender and sexuality perspectives, including consideration of other social determinants of human health
- Adapt and translate empirical research findings to persuade and engage health professional audiences of the importance of gender equity and human health issues.
Content
The unit covers the following topics:
- women’s health,
- men’s health,
- intersex and transgender health,
- gender as a social determinant of health,
- biological sex and health,
- intersectionality, and gender as it intersects with other drivers of health globally
- Indigenous and marginalised perspectives
- digital practices for advocating for marginalised groups
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures - delivered on-campus and offered synchronously online. Recordings are available.
- tutorials (separate online and on-campus offerings)
- self-directed online readings and learning materials
- real world examples of gender equity and human health
- group learning and peer feedback
In order to maximise your learning experience in this unit, each tutorial will be supported by set readings and a series of guided questions which you will be expected to consider prior to the tutorial.
Participation in tutorials engages you in small group discussion where diverse views and interpretation of literature develop your ability to express an opinion backed up by evidence. Your ability to think critically, ask questions of the literature in the real world context of the topics chosen for your research is a capability expected at a professional level.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on your learning at key points. You will be provided with feedback on each assessment item as you progress through the unit. You will contribute weekly reflections which will provide opportunity for self and peer feedback and be periodically reviewed by the teaching staff.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has three assessments:
1. Padlet Diary Entries - This will draw on the unit content from the material delivered in lectures and discussed in tutorials and provide an opportunity for you to critically reflect on what you have learned.
2. Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast - This will develop your ability to orally communicate research in an engaging and persuasive format. It will connect to specific topics covered in lectures and in-depth in tutorials. You will need to make big data, research, service provision and current advocacy efforts accessible and understandable to a health professional audience.
3. Research Essay - This will develop your research and academic writing skills to deeply investigate a gender equity phenomenon to produce a critical research essay.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Padlet Diary Entries
You will write ongoing critical reflections on lecture content, tutorial discussions and resources in the media, news, and journal articles relevant to the weekly topic. Your reflections will take into account intersectional and diverse gender and sexuality perspectives, including consideration of other social determinants such as Indigenous perspectives.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast
You will take on the role of apublic health professionals to create a podcast on a selected gender equity and human health topic for other health professionals. The podcast will be designed to promote the health and wellbeing of marginalised gender groups in relation to key health issue faced by that group.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research Essay
You will write a critical essay that researches a topic covered in any of the lectures in this unit during the semester. The essay will be supported by evidence and analysed using theory with the purpose of proposing strategies for change. The essay necessarily advocates for gender equity and human health.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
No resources needed
Risk Assessment Statement
Some of the information that will be shared during this unit could trigger some emotional responses for you and/or your peers. The unit will cover topics such as gender related violence and prejudice, race related violence and prejudice, experiences of marginalised groups and self-harm. It is very important that you monitor your own feelings and well-being as you study. You may need to take breaks and find helpful ways you can process the information. Information about accessing support at QUT and suggestions for self-care will be provided in the unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU52 Bachelor of Public Health
- Apply public health principles and evidence to improve population health outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Padlet Diary Entries, Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast, Research Essay - Critically analyse scholarly literature and effectively conduct research to inform evidence based public health practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Research Essay - Communicate with professional, non-professional and community audiences about public health using diverse technologies.
Relates to: ULO5, Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast - Apply culturally safe and inclusive approaches to work with diverse individuals, groups and communities, including Indigenous Australians.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Padlet Diary Entries, Gender Equity and Human Health Podcast, Research Essay