Undergraduate - UnitHSC3011 - Contemporary health challenges

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. discuss in depth some key contemporary health challenges demonstrating awareness of multiple perspectives, including the ways in which different health professions approach the issues and exploring how integrated approaches to addressing the issues may be mounted across disciplines;
2. demonstrate understanding of key global determinants of health;
3. consider the common and specific factors involved in the construction of various contemporary health challenges as being of 'high priority', particularly in the context of the role that evidence and other factors, including the media, play in this process;
4. demonstrate understanding of the complex interplay of political, economic, legal and socio-cultural frameworks in shaping contemporary health challenges and how they are responded to;
5. identify and discuss the implications of ideology, values and power bases in determining our understanding (and prioritising) of contemporary public health challenges;
6. explore specific case studies of contemporary health challenges (global or local) and critically reflect on current strategies and approaches to responding to them.