Understand key concepts, goals and initiatives in public health. Learn public health nutrition practice methods including: nutrition monitoring, program planning, communication, and advocacy techniques.
Understand key concepts, goals and initiatives in public health. Learn public health nutrition practice methods including: nutrition monitoring, program planning, communication, and advocacy techniques.
Learn to devise treatment strategies that involve dietary modification, nutritional management and to evaluate these strategies against the findings from empirical knowledge and evidence-based research.
Combine your understanding of health science and nutritional medicine by investigating the importance of scientific research to better the impact of diet and nutrition in maintaining health and wellbeing.
Introduces the skills for assessing clients’ diets and determining appropriate plans for modifying diet and food choices. Explore nutritional assessment tools and learn principles for working with clients to assist them.
Learn the basics of food-based science of food preparation, cooking practices, cultivation and storage practices. A variety of cultural dietary medicine systems and philosophical perspectives are introduced.
Learn about the dietary differences between cultures and social classes and explore how social and environmental factors impact diets. Identify possible appropriate research articles relevant to food and nutrition issues.
Learn about the dietary differences between cultures and social classes and explore how social and environmental factors impact diets. Identify possible appropriate research articles relevant to food and nutrition issues.
Develop skills in musculoskeletal assessment, channel based diagnostic frameworks, biomedical investigative reports, and the management of simple acute musculoskeletal conditions.
This
subject aims to provide students with an understanding of the social
determinants of health for Australia’s First Peoples and how professionals
might work in collaboration with communities to reduce health inequalities. In
this subject students will study the cultures, histories, and contemporary
social and political issues affecting Australia’s First Peoples. Themes focus
on: morbidity and mortality, chronic disease and mental health; health policy
and services; access and barriers to utilisation of health services; and
intercultural communication skills.