Public Health

Major/Minor/Specialisation !441-MS-MAJ+1009 (2013)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2013.

Year and Campus:	2013

Coordinator

Professor Dallas English (Population Health)

Contact

Office for Environmental Programs
Ground Floor, Walter Boas Building (building 163)

Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au

Overview:	Public Health is offered as a major field of study in the Master of Environment degree. The environments in which we live immediately impact on our health. The Public Health major is designed to ensure the creation and maintenance of environments that promote good public health. By collaborating with other disciplines and sectors, we work to identify and manage environmental health problems. Study in this field will provide you with the tools used in environmental health practice, and by public health practitioners. These include surveillance, monitoring, observation, analysis, and selected techniques in biostatistics, epidemiology and health economics. Other skills we develop are more specific to environmental health or environmental studies, such as environmental, social and health impact assessment and qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. This major is a specialist companion program to the Master of Public Health which is offered at the University of Melbourne and at many other institutions. Students benefit from Melbourne's strong health sciences programs. By studying in this area, you might expect to find employment in the health industry; government agencies, within the environmental and health sectors; consulting companies, and development agencies.
Objectives:	Students who complete the Master of Environment will have: • An advanced understanding of environmental issues • Advanced skills and techniques applicable to changing and managing the environment • An ability to evaluate and synthesise research and professional literature in the chosen stream or focus of study • An advanced understanding of the international context and sensitivities of environmental assessment The graduate attributes for the Master of Environment are: • Expertise in multidisciplinary understanding, analysis and research with an environmental focus • Collaborative approaches to environmental problem solving • Capacity to engage in critical social and sustainability questions The Master of Environment generic skills are: • Multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary knowledge and research of environmental relevance • Collaborative environmental management skills • Capacity for independent learning across discipline boundaries
Structure & Available Subjects:	Students will be required to complete four core subjects and undertake electives to make up the balance of the award. The selection of electives is made in consultation with the Public Health major coordinator. For a current list of subjects offered in the Public Health major, please refer to the course information page at: http://www.oep.unimelb.edu.au/currentstudents/master_of_environment/specialist_paths_of_study/public_health
Subject Options:	Core Subjects Students are required to complete the subjects: Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: MULT90005 Interdisciplinarity and the Environment Not offered in 2013 12.50 MULT90004 Sustainability Policy and Management Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90013 Biostatistics Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90217 Foundations of Public Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90014 Epidemiology Not offered in 2013 12.50 Elective Subjects plus undertake electives to make up the balance of the award. The recommended list of electives includes: Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: POPH90191 Practice of Public Health Leadership Not offered in 2013 12.50 ENST90002 Social Impact Assessment and Evaluation Not offered in 2013 12.50 ANTH90001 Heritage and Cultural Environments Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90066 Women and Global Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90071 Indigenous Health and History March 12.50 POPH90086 International Child Health October 12.50 POPH90090 Health Program Evaluation 2 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90094 Health Economics 1 Semester 1 12.50 POPH90095 Economic Evaluation 2 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90112 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90137 Primary Health Care, Jamkhed, India November 12.50 POPH90144 Linear & Logistic Regression Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90145 Survival Analysis & Regression for Rates September 12.50 POPH90146 Study Design in Epidemiology Not offered in 2013 12.50 EVSC90010 Environmental Risk Assessment Not offered in 2013 12.50 CHEM90007 Environmental Chemistry Not offered in 2013 12.50 LAWS70068 Environmental Law Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90213 Ethical Dimensions in Health Care Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90208 Key Concepts in Medical Anthropology Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90169 Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90210 Behaviour Society and Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90070 Clinical Sexual & Reproductive Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90212 Community:Theory and Practice Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90211 Current Debates in Population Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90088 Disability in Developing Countries Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90093 Economic Evaluation 1 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90230 Environmental Challenges and Global Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90147 Epidemiology in Practice Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90132 Field Methods for Health Management Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90199 Gender and Health Semester 1 12.50 POPH90111 Genetic Epidemiology Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90189 Global Health Program Planning & Design Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90229 Health Economics 2 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90206 Health Policy Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90207 Health Ethics Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90058 Health Program Evaluation 1 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90020 Health Promotion February 12.50 POPH90209 Health Systems August 12.50 POPH90190 HIV and AIDS:An Evolving Global Response Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90232 Indigenous Health: From Data to Practice Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90087 International Adolescent Health Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90131 Primary Hlth Care in Develop. Countries March, August 12.50 POPH90200 Principles of Social Research Design Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90198 Sex Work, Drugs, Sex Between Men & HIV Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90068 Sexually Transmissible Infections Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90203 Social Analysis in Health 1 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90204 Social Analysis in Health 2 Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90205 Health Inequalities Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90201 Social Sciences Research Methods Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90218 Public Health Leadership and Management Not offered in 2013 12.50 POPH90231 Surveys and Qualitative Methods Not offered in 2013 12.50 ENST90006 Environmental Research Review Not offered in 2013 12.50 ENST90007 Environmental Research Topic Not offered in 2013 25 ENST90016 Environmental Research Project Not offered in 2013 50 ENST70001 Environmental Research Proj (long) MYE Semester 2 25 ENST90020 Environmental Research - Industry C Not offered in 2013 50 ENST70002 Environmental Research - Industry D Not offered in 2013 25 ENST90024 Environmental Research Topic (Long) Semester 2 12.50 ENST90025 Environmental Research - Industry A Not offered in 2013 25 ENST90026 Environmental Research - Industry B Not offered in 2013 12.50
Links to further information:	http://www.environment.unimelb.edu.au/
Notes:	Other subjects may be approved at the discretion of the coordinator.
Related Course(s):	Master of Environment Master of Environment

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