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MPH5256 - Injury epidemiology and prevention

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Coordinator(s)

Professor Belinda Gabbe

Offered

Alfred Hospital

Term 3 2016 (On-campus block of classes)

Notes

This unit will not be offered in 2017 (only offered every 2 years).

Synopsis

This unit will cover the principles of injury epidemiology, prevention and control. The unit will provide an introduction to the injury epidemiology and prevention field with a particular focus on issues facing injury surveillance, countermeasure development, injury policy and injury burden estimates.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

analyse and contextualise the concept of injury as a preventable health condition;
identify and describe the context and consequence of burden of injury;
synthesise the principles of injury prevention and control and related models;
identify requirements for and conduct injury surveillance;
analyse and evaluate the strengths and limitations of a variety of research methods used to define the nature and extent of injury;
develop, implement and evaluate injury prevention programs and frameworks for countermeasure development;
theorise and analyse approaches to injury policy and legislation; and
analyse and evaluate issues in the measurement of injury severity, definition, burden and outcome.

Assessment

Written assignments
Oral presentation

Workload requirements

5 day intensive block.

Chief examiner(s)