Health Policy
Table of units of study: Health Policy
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Core units |
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| Core units for graduate certificate students are HPOL5000, HPOL5001 and HPOL5003 | |||
| Core units for graduate diploma students are HPOL5000, HPOL5001, HPOL5003 and HPOL5007 | |||
| HPOL5000 Introduction to Health Policy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| HPOL5001 Economics and Finance for Health Policy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| HPOL5003 Analysing Health Policy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| HPOL5007 Global Health Policy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| HPOL5008 Evidence into Policy and Practice |
6 | C HPOL5000 and HPOL5001 |
Semester 1 |
| HPOL5009 Health Policy Project |
6 | C HPOL5003 and HPOL5008 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Elective units |
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| BETH5104 Bioethics, Law and Society |
6 |
Prerequisites: A three-year undergraduate degree in science, medicine, nursing, allied health sciences, philosophy/ethics, sociology/anthropology, law, history, or other relevant field, or by special permission. |
Semester 1 |
| BETH5203 Ethics and Public Health |
6 | N BETH5206 |
Semester 2 |
| BETH5206 Introduction to Public Health Ethics |
2 | N BETH5203 Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma or Master of Public Health may choose to take BETH5203 (6CP) instead of BETH5206 (2CP). This unit is available to Master of Public Health (MPH) students only. |
Semester 2a |
| CISS6004 Health and Security |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| HPOL5006 Business of Health |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Students need to demonstrate at least one year's work experience in a related field. A waiver would be granted for students enrolled in MHPOL or MBA as this is already a course requirement of these programs. |
Intensive July |
| MEDF5005 Health Research Methods and Ethics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MIPH5135 Health Systems in Developing Countries |
4 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5302 Health Economic Evaluation |
4 | P ((PUBH5010 or CEPI5100) and PUBH5018) or (HPOL5001 as a prerequisite and HPOL5003 as a co-requisite) |
Intensive September |
| PUBH5307 Advanced Health Economic Evaluation |
2 | P PUBH5018 and (PUBH5010 or CEPI5100) C PUBH5205 and PUBH5302 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive October |
| PUBH5308 Health Workforce Policy Analysis This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
2 | Intensive October |
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| PUBH5418 Tobacco Control in the 21st Century |
6 | Intensive August |
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| PUBH5420 Public Health Advocacy Strategies |
4 | Semester 2b |
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| PUBH5422 Health and Risk Communication |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5500 Advanced Qualitative Health Research |
6 | N QUAL5005 or QUAL5006 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PUBH5550 Climate Change and Public Health |
4 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5555 Lifestyle and Chronic Disease Prevention |
6 | P PUBH5033 |
Semester 2 |
| QUAL5003 Qualitative Research Analysis and Writing |
6 | A Basic understanding of the nature of qualitative knowledge and types of qualitative data. P PUBH5500 or QUAL5005 |
Semester 2 |
| Students may be allowed to enrol in elective units of study that are not on this list with the prior approval of both the course coordinator and the unit of study coordinator. | |||