Postgraduate - UnitMPH5255 - Health and human rights

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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 First semester 2015 (Day) Alfred Hospital First semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Liz Bishop

Synopsis

This unit examines the interrelationship between public health and human rights. It begins be providing a overview of the development, content and application of human rights. Human rights aspects of contemporary local and international health concerns are then considered.

Outcomes

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

Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of human rights;
Demonstrate an understanding of how a human rights framework might be applied in analysing health concerns;
Critically evaluate the worth of this framework to contributing to the improvement of human well being.

Assessment

On campus students
Written assignments mid-semester (30%)
Written assignments end-semester (70%)

Off campus students
Written assignments (60%)
Contribution to online discussion forum (40%)