Unit of Study HLTH5006 Principles & Practice of Lifestyle Medicine I: Foundations (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Introduces students to the field of Lifestyle Medicine, and the foundations of the discipline.

Unit content

Introduction to lifestyle medicine.
Determinants of health and lifestyle disease.
Nutrition and health.
Physical activity and health.
Sleep and health.
Practitioner health and wellbeing.

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Online	Term1,3	Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Examine the discipline and practice of lifestyle medicine.

Examine the correlation between the determinants of health and lifestyle disease.

Critically examine nutrition, physical activity and sleep, and their relationship to health.

Identify approaches to monitor and support practitioner health and wellbeing.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Project 150 hours (Across the term)

Assessment
Discussion board	10%
Infographic	40%
Essay	50%

Prescribed learning resources

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Prescribed Resources/Equipment

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Fee information

Domestic

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