PUQ106 Population Health
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| Unit code: | PUQ106 |
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| Equivalent(s): | PUN106 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PUQ106 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PUN106 |
| Coordinator: | Susan Wilson | sk.wilson@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Health professionals face a complex and changing health profile locally, nationally and internationally, and the biomedical model for understanding health problems does not adequately explain these complexities or sufficiently help health professionals successfully intervene to improve the population's health. It is therefore critical for health professionals to reflect upon the social and behavioural factors that influence health and work in partnership to influence these factors.
This unit is a foundation unit for graduate public health, environmental health and health safety and environment students, and is taken in the first year of a full-time postgraduate degree. The unit provides postgraduate health students with a population health foundation, and is a building block for postgraduate study in health.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Define public health concepts
- Identify the health priorities at international and national levels
- Illustrate how historical and contemporary public health developments will influence the future of population health
- Apply a public health framework to the critical evaluation of the impact of social, cultural, economic and political factors on a specific population and development of strategies to address these factors
- Reflect on team communication and dynamics required to successfully deliver a research report
Content
This unit aims to broaden your understanding of the complex interplay of factors that impact on population health in Australia and internationally. The unit discusses historical and current health problems that impact on population health as well as public health frameworks developed to analyse them and public health approaches for impacting on them. You will undertake a critical inquiry into the health of the population in Australia and internationally.
Learning Approaches
You will be engaged in an active learning environment, undertaking regular online activities, guided through the learning process by expert teaching staff who provide regular feedback. On average, you will need to dedicate 12-15 hours each week for your learning that includes readings, discussions with peers and assignments.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
There are 20 questions in the quiz. You will be presented with all questions at the start of the quiz. The online quiz will include multiple-choice questions. This is an open-book quiz.
This quiz will be based on the content covered from Modules 1–3. The questions in this quiz draw upon topics covered in both the learning materials and the essential readings.
Assessment: Research report - Part A
You will work in a team to produce a report about a specific population. For the report, you will apply a public health framework to the critical evaluation of the impact of social, cultural, economic and political factors on the population and development of strategies to address these factors.
For this assignment, Part A, you and your team will create an introduction to the report. You will also write an individual reflection on teamwork and communication processes in your team.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Research report - Part B
You will work in a team to produce a report about a specific population. For this assignment, Part B, each team member will individually write about a separate issue related to this population in consultation with the other students in the team. You will be marked individually for this assignment.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
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.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Nil
Costs
There are no additional costs associated with this unit.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
There is no individual set eText for this unit. Essential readings are provided in electronic format, within the weekly learning materials.
Unit Outline: Session 4 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PUQ106 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PUN106 |
| Coordinator: | Susan Wilson | sk.wilson@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Health professionals face a complex and changing health profile locally, nationally and internationally, and the biomedical model for understanding health problems does not adequately explain these complexities or sufficiently help health professionals successfully intervene to improve the population's health. It is therefore critical for health professionals to reflect upon the social and behavioural factors that influence health and work in partnership to influence these factors.
This unit is a foundation unit for graduate public health, environmental health and health safety and environment students, and is taken in the first year of a full-time postgraduate degree. The unit provides postgraduate health students with a population health foundation, and is a building block for postgraduate study in health.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Define public health concepts
- Identify the health priorities at international and national levels
- Illustrate how historical and contemporary public health developments will influence the future of population health
- Apply a public health framework to the critical evaluation of the impact of social, cultural, economic and political factors on a specific population and development of strategies to address these factors
- Reflect on team communication and dynamics required to successfully deliver a research report
Content
This unit aims to broaden your understanding of the complex interplay of factors that impact on population health in Australia and internationally. The unit discusses historical and current health problems that impact on population health as well as public health frameworks developed to analyse them and public health approaches for impacting on them. You will undertake a critical inquiry into the health of the population in Australia and internationally.
Learning Approaches
You will be engaged in an active learning environment, undertaking regular online activities, guided through the learning process by expert teaching staff who provide regular feedback. On average, you will need to dedicate 12-15 hours each week for your learning that includes readings, discussions with peers and assignments.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
There are 20 questions in the quiz. You will be presented with all questions at the start of the quiz. The online quiz will include multiple-choice questions. This is an open-book quiz.
This quiz will be based on the content covered from Modules 1–3. The questions in this quiz draw upon topics covered in both the learning materials and the essential readings.
Assessment: Research report - Part A
You will work in a team to produce a report about a specific population. For the report, you will apply a public health framework to the critical evaluation of the impact of social, cultural, economic and political factors on the population and development of strategies to address these factors.
For this assignment, Part A, you and your team will create an introduction to the report. You will also write an individual reflection on teamwork and communication processes in your team.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Research report - Part B
You will work in a team to produce a report about a specific population. For this assignment, Part B, each team member will individually write about a separate issue related to this population in consultation with the other students in the team. You will be marked individually for this assignment.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
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.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Nil
Costs
There are no additional costs associated with this unit.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
There is no individual set eText for this unit. Essential readings are provided in electronic format, within the weekly learning materials.