6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate - Unit
Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.
Faculty
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Chief examiner(s)
Coordinator(s)
Unit guides
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.
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