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Unit description
Highlights the fact that in all instances, marginalised and dominated populations suffer a greater burden of disease. Theories of social determination, evidence-based evaluations and bias identification will be compared.
Unit content
Topic 1: Causation health and causation health inequity
Topic 2: Social Determinants
Topic 3: An Equitable Evidence Base
Topic 4: Methodological Diversity
Topic 5: Evidence Synthesis and Situation analysis
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | critique the principles of social determination and identify relevant social issues and community contexts that impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people |
| 2 | evaluate equity frameworks to reveal internal bias and expose social factors in problem identification |
| 3 | critically analyse social interventions and health and wellbeing movements from a social determinant perspective. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critique the principles of social determination and identify relevant social issues and community contexts that impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people
- evaluate equity frameworks to reveal internal bias and expose social factors in problem identification
- critically analyse social interventions and health and wellbeing movements from a social determinant perspective.
Teaching and assessment
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