Availabilities:

LocationDomesticInternational
Gold Coast
Term1,5
Term1,5
Online
Term1,5
Term1,5

Unit description

Raises understanding of Indigenous health issues including: Indigenous concepts and frameworks for health; the negative impact of colonisation on health and wellbeing; cultural safety; and reflection on how to decolonise professional practice. Awareness of best-practice Indigenous health care strategies will be elevated through discussion, critical analysis, and service planning exercises.  

Unit content

Module 1 - Contrasting Aboriginal and western Health Perspectives

Module 2 - Colonisation and Health

Module 3 - Social and cultural determinants of health

Module 4 - Cultural Safety

Module 5 - Decolonising your Practice

Module 6 – Working in Indigenous communities

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:
1discuss key concepts of health and wellbeing as determined by Aboriginal people
2identify key stages of the colonisation process and its relationship to the contemporary health status of Australian Indigenous people
3analyse the relationship between socio-economic factors and the contemporary health status of Australian Indigenous people
4explain how primary health care and/or health promotion enhances the wellbeing of Indigenous people and role of the heatlh professional as an agent of social change

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

  1. discuss key concepts of health and wellbeing as determined by Aboriginal people
  2. identify key stages of the colonisation process and its relationship to the contemporary health status of Australian Indigenous people
  3. analyse the relationship between socio-economic factors and the contemporary health status of Australian Indigenous people
  4. explain how primary health care and/or health promotion enhances the wellbeing of Indigenous people and role of the heatlh professional as an agent of social change

Prescribed Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Texts
  • Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.
Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Short written response40%
Critical review60%

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial  2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Short written response40%
Critical review60%
Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every teaching period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Southern Cross University employs different teaching methods within units to provide students with the flexibility to choose the mode of learning that best suits them. SCU academics strive to use the latest approaches and, as a result, the learning modes and materials may change. The most current information regarding a unit will be provided to enrolled students at the beginning of the teaching period.

Fee information

Domestic

Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.

Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees

International

Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.

+