MPH5223 Social and cultural determinants of health

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Apply key principles of social and cultural thought to the lived experience, ways of knowing being and doing of First nations Australians.

2. 2

   Apply key principles of social and cultural thought to the lived experience of culturally diverse Australians.

3. 3

   Develop and apply the social imagination to examine the social and cultural production, construction and organisation of health and wellbeing, locally and globally.

4. 4

   Apply social, cultural and political ideas as analytical tools to critically examine cultural, social, political and economic factors influencing health and wellbeing.

5. 5

   Critically examine and evaluate familiar aspects of culture and society, including historical representation, in order to extend knowledge of the socio-economic and cultural structures, institutions and processes relevant to health at local and global levels.

6. 6

   Form an appreciation of how multiple levels of disadvantage based on cultural, socio-economic or ethnic background, gender, or sexual orientation can intersect, leading to further discrimination and subsequent worsened health outcomes.

7. 7

   Explore factors affecting health of First Nations Australians.

8. 8

   Explore factors affecting health of culturally and socially diverse individuals and populations in Australia.