PHCA9504 Critical Practice in Indigenous Health

Associate Professor Courtney Ryder

2018

4.5

1 x 50-minute lecture weekly
1 x 2-hour tutorial weekly
1 x 50-minute on-line exercises weekly

1 of HLTH1012, PHCA8313, PHCA8504 has been successfully completed

Topic is available to post graduate students only

Assignment 1 (20%), Assignment 2 (30%), Assignment 3 (50%).

This topic is available to students enrolled in other graduate awards with the approval of the course coordinator MPH.

The topic is designed to enhance awareness and understanding of ways in which social determinants influence Indigenous peoples' health. It does this by introducing social determinants which inmpact on Indigenous peoples' health, discussing models and processes of social determinants and exploring key social determinants.

The primary aims of this topic are to enable you to:

increase your understanding of the impact of social determinants on the health of Indigenous Australians.
apply the current state of knowledge about the relationship between social determinants and health to improving Indigenous peoples' health.

On completion of this topic, you should be able to:

Understand the critical concepts relating to the social determinants of health
Analyse and apply current models and frameworks used to explain the social determinants of health
Understand the role of Australian history in contemporary Australian Indigenous peoples' disadvantage and physical and mental health
Appreciate Indigenous peoples' understandings of health and place
Describe current theories linking income inequality and health and define measures of socioeconomic status
Understand the importance of housing as a determinant of health
Understand the role of social networks, links and support and how they influence health
Define the characteristics of racism and its effects on health
Describe the impacts of education and employment on health and the role of economic development
Describe social interventions, their implementation and critical success factors

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