Health, wellbeing and sustainability in global contexts

This unit develops your health-related knowledge, skills and capabilities by focusing on the role of educators in sustainability education and by association enhancing the health and wellbeing of young people now and in the future. The unit aims to build your understandings of the complex relationships between sustainability, health and wellbeing, humans and nature, ethics and equity, and life and death by examining a number of contemporary global and local (glocal) planetary and human health challenges, for example poverty, violence, globalisation, climate change, disease, health activism, employment and more. This is done through the lens of sustainability via a focus on ethics, equality, equity, environment with links to personal and professional action and social change. The unit challenges you to think critically and creatively about twenty-first century health challenges and to move towards becoming more compassionate, empathetic and critically responsive humans and educators equipped with a glocal outlook on the many complex factors that contribute to a sustainable future and health for all.