Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | ||
| Online |
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: | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- discuss key concepts of health and wellbeing as determined by Aboriginal people
- identify key stages of the colonisation process and its relationship to the contemporary health status of Australian Indigenous people
- analyse the relationship between socio-economic factors and the contemporary health status of Australian Indigenous people
- 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
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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