Priority Issues in Women's Health
Description
This subject focuses on parameters of healthy functioning including physical, psychological and social wellbeing and their interrelationships. It also considers the way in which various social and cultural factors may affect women's health and quality of life and provoke illness. Particular examples including the impact of smoking, body image and pre menstrual syndrome will be examined in detail.
Subject Code
WOHT90006
Credit Points
25 Points
Objectives
Please see Generic skills students will develop, below.
Generic skills students will develop
Students who successfully complete this subject should:
- be able to identify current priority issues in women's health
- understand the biomedical and psychosocial models of women's health and the different implications for the development of women's health of each model
- understand the policy context in which priorities in women's health are developed and acted on
- be able to discuss and present a paper to the class on at least one priority issue in women's health
Pre-requisites and/or Co-requisites
None
Mode of Delivery
Intensive
Contact Time
36 hours of lectures/tutorials/seminars in the intensive period, supported by additional preliminary tutorials to a maximum of ten hours.
Assessment
Class paper and written assignments totalling 8,000 words
Subject Coordinator
TBA
Venue
This subject is normally delivered in Japan
Dates
TBA
Course Fee
TBA
Prescribed Textbook
Course materials are provided to all participants
Online Learning System
Not applicable
Academic Coordinator
Associate Professor Jane Fisher
Deputy Director and Coordinator of International Programs
Centre for Women's Health, Gender & Society
Melbourne School of Population Health
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
T: +61 3 8344 0687
F: +61 3 9347 9824
E: jrwf@unimelb.edu.au
Course Contact
Renae Louis
Project Manager
Melbourne Consulting and Custom Programs
The University of Melbourne
442 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
AUSTRALIA
T: +61 3 9810 3158
F: +61 3 9810 3149
E: r.louis@mccp.unimelb.edu.au
Application Process
Applications are managed by Student Services