HLTH101-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Introduction to Health Studies

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2014

Description

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to core topics in health studies including concepts of health, measuring health, determinants of health and health services organisation.

How do we prevent ill health?  How do we create healthier environments?  
HLTH101 Introduction to Health Studies provides students with a conceptual and practical toolkit with which to examine health and health-related issues. This course is compulsory for all majors in Health Science, but anyone who wishes to learn about social and economic means of improving health and wellbeing in New Zealand and internationally will find it interesting.

The course is taught by health practitioners from Christchurch and academics from across the university.  The course coordinators are Dr Amy Fletcher, a health policy specialist in Political Science and Dr Carolyn Mason, a bioethicist in Philosophy.
The presenters differ each year, depending on currently relevant issues. However, last year’s topics included presentations on:
• Housing and health
• Young people’s health
• Global health challenges
• Health screening
• Public health in New Zealand
• Exercise, sport and health
• Mental health
• Māori and health
• Smoking cessation policy in New Zealand
• Concepts of health
• Epidemiology
• Working in the health sector

Learning Outcomes

  • Students who complete the course will understand:
  • health determinants including social, economic and political determinants
  • health inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand, and current measures to address them;
  • the ways in which we can measure health;
  • which strategies work best for promoting health, and why;
  • the use and evaluation of health policies in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Lecturers

Carolyn Mason and Amy Fletcher

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Tutorial Attendance 10%
Essay One 11 Apr 2014 25% 1500 words
Report 06 Jun 2014 25% 2000 words
Final Exam 40% Examination


Students will have three major pieces of assessment.  First, a 1500 word essay will allow you to explore some of the underlying concepts involved in thinking about health.  Secondly, you will produce a short report on a health issue of your choice. A final exam will round out the assessments for this course.

Textbooks / Resources

There will be a course reader available on Learn.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $777.00

International fee $3,563.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All HLTH101 Occurrences

  • HLTH101-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014
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