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Program Overview

The program is PUBH200 - Globalisation, Environment and Health.

Year and Credit Points

• Year: 2023
• Credit points: 10

Campus Offering

No unit offerings are currently available for this unit.

Prerequisites

• PUBH100 Foundations of Public Health
• PUBH102 Foundations of Health Promotion

Teaching Organisation

150 hours of focused learning.

Unit Rationale, Description, and Aim

Globalisation and associated environmental challenges pose significant threats to human health. It is necessary for public health professionals to understand and critique the impact of these issues, so they can work to maximise the benefits of globalisation and environmental services, while minimising health harms. This unit examines the breadth of environmental health and international dimensions of public health including the impact of globalisation on international health inequities.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Explain the interplay of globalisation, natural environments and human health.
• Demonstrate an understanding of both the positive and negative impacts of globalisation and environment on public health issues.
• Critically appraise the role of multinational organisations, policies and agreements on environment and public health.
• Apply key concepts in globalisation, environment and public health to critically evaluate global efforts to improve public health.

Graduate Attributes

• GA4: think critically and reflectively
• GA5: demonstrate values, knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the discipline and/or profession
• GA6: solve problems in a variety of settings taking local and international perspectives into account
• GA8: locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information

Content

Topics will include:

• Drivers and public health consequences of globalisation
• Natural environmental systems as determinants of public health
• Key global environmental challenges to population health
• Incidence and distribution of global health problems
• Role of public health action in addressing globalisation and environmental challenges
• Role of international policies, agreements and organisations in addressing global health issues.

Learning and Teaching Strategy and Rationale

PUBH200 is delivered in attendance mode; the primary learning activities are face-to-face sessions on campus. The unit uses an active learning approach where activities support students to acquire fundamental knowledge to support their future studies of public health or other health-related disciplines.

Assessment Strategy and Rationale

This unit is designed based on a constructivism approach, which supports active learning that encourages students to engage in a range of learning activities to facilitate the construction of new knowledge.

Overview of Assessments

• Essay One (1500 words): To enable and assess students' ability to describe the impact of globalisation and environment on public health (50%).
• Essay Two (1500 words): To enable and test students' ability to critically evaluate global efforts to improve public health by applying key concepts of globalisation and environmental determinants of public health (50%).

Representative Texts and References

• Guest G. (2005). Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective (Globalization and the Environment). Rowman & Littlefield.
• Rydin, Y., Bleahu, A., Davies, M., Dávila, J. D., Friel, S., De Grandis, G., ... Wilson, J. (2012). Shaping cities for health: Complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century. Lancet, 379(9831).
• Watts, N., Adger, W. N., Agnolucci, P., Blackstock, J., Byass, P., Cai, W., ... Costello, A. (2015). Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health. Lancet, 386(10006).