Postgraduate - UnitMPH5203 - Environmental influences on health

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital Second semester 2014 (Day) Alfred Hospital Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr E MacFarlane

Synopsis

Environmental influences on health including physical, chemical and biological hazards as well as principles of assessment, management and control of environmental health risks.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

identify important chemical, physical and biological hazards in the environment and analyse related risks to health from environmental factors in Australia;
communicate fluently using appropriate terminology to describe chemical, physical and biological hazards encountered in a variety of contexts;
critically appraise the epidemiological literature which informs the evidence base for environmental health risk control strategies;
identify common hazards, appropriate techniques for exposure measurement and risk assessment methodologies in environmental media such as water air and food;
apply theoretical models of risk communication to appropriately communicate the principles of effective management of environmental health risks; and
develop evidence based interventions to control simple environmental risks and prevent harm, including strategies for standard setting and systematic management of key personal, social and economic factors, to inhibit, control or reduce potential for harm.