Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis The subject considers a variety of factors in human development and lifestyle which can impact on the health of an individual. Topics to be covered include concepts of health; human-environment interrelationships; health and lifestyle associations; nutritional requirements; diseases associated with inadequate nutrition; diseases associated with nutritional excesses; conception and foetal development; selected congenital disorders; puberty; ageing and selected diseases associated with ageing; principles of inheritance; selected inherited traits and disorders; genetic prediction and counselling.
Assessment Two assignments (1000 words): 30% + Assignment (2000 words): 25% + Examination (2 hours): 45%