Global Health minor
The rapid pace of globalisation in the past decades has been accompanied by increasing integration of countries, health systems, and economies. Health issues and challenges transcend geographical and political borders, with spillover effects into economic and political systems. The COVID-19 pandemic is only one of a number of major global health challenges that require multidisciplinary perspectives as well as cross-country and inter-sector collaboration to address. The global health minor will also focus on the impact of other key transnational determinants such as obesity and urbanisation and how these global issues affect both domestic health disparities as well as cross-border issues.
The Global Health minor aims to provide multidisciplinary knowledge that will allow a broad understanding of global health issues and challenges and the efforts to tackle them. Furthermore, students who complete the Global Health minor will be able to critically analyse global health issues from various angles, the success stories and describe the barriers that still need to be overcome to address current and future global health challenges.
Outcomes
Students are able to (1) Describe current and emerging global health issues and challenges from multidisciplinary perspectives; (2) Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and challenges specific to regions or countries; (3) Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and challenges and how they relate to other sectors outside of health; (4) Critically analyse global health issues from multi-disciplinary perspectives; and (5) Describe the barriers to achieving global health priorities and challenges.
Incompatibility
This minor is incompatible with the following:
This Minor is incompatible with the MJD-PPHLH Population Health, which currently has a drafted Annual Change for a Course Title update to MJD-PPHLH Public Health from 2022.
Unit sequence
| Key to availability of units: |
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| S1 = Semester 1; S2 = Semester 2; NS = non-standard teaching period |
Students are required to take all Core Units (12 points) and 6 points of Options Units at Level 1, and 6 points of Options Units between level 2 and 3.
Take the following unit:
| Availability |
Unit code |
Unit name |
Unit requirements |
| S2 |
PUBH1102 |
Health and Globalisation |
- Prerequisites:
- Nil
- Co-requisites:
- Nil
- Incompatibility:
- Nil
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Take the following unit:
| Availability |
Unit code |
Unit name |
Unit requirements |
| S1 |
PUBH2204 |
Disease Prevention and Control |
- Prerequisites:
- PUBH1101 Health and Illness in Human Populations;
or
PUBH1102 Health, and Globalisation;
or
ANHB1101 Human Biology I: Becoming Human;
or
ANHB1102 Human Biology II: Being Human;
or
ANTH1001 Being Human: Culture, Identity and Society;
or
ANTH1002 Global Change, Local Responses - Co-requisites:
- Nil.
- Incompatibility:
- Nil.
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Take unit(s) to the value of 6 points:
| Availability |
Unit code |
Unit name |
Unit requirements |
| S2 |
GEOG1104 |
Disasters! |
- Prerequisites:
- Nil
- Co-requisites:
- Nil
- Incompatibility:
- Nil
|
| S2 |
POLS1102 |
Understanding Global Politics |
- Prerequisites:
- Nil.
- Co-requisites:
- Nil.
- Incompatibility:
- Nil.
|
Take as per sequence notes:
| Availability |
Unit code |
Unit name |
Unit requirements |
| NS |
PUBH2211 |
Population Health Field Trip |
- Prerequisites:
- 24 points of prior course study
- Co-requisites:
- Nil.
- Incompatibility:
- IMED3303 Interprofessional Health Practice
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Take as per sequence notes:
| Availability |
Unit code |
Unit name |
Unit requirements |
| S1 |
PUBH3307 |
Health Systems and Policy |
- Prerequisites:
- PUBH2204 Disease Prevention and Control
- Co-requisites:
- Nil.
- Incompatibility:
- Nil.
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