MPH5256 Injury epidemiology and prevention

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

1. 1

   Analyse and contextualise the concept of injury as a preventable health condition;

2. 2

   Identify and describe the context and consequence of burden of injury;

3. 3

   Synthesise the principles of injury prevention and control and related models;

4. 4

   Identify requirements for and conduct injury surveillance;

5. 5

   Analyse and evaluate the strengths and limitations of a variety of research methods used to define the nature and extent of injury;

6. 6

   Develop, implement and evaluate injury prevention programs and frameworks for countermeasure development;

7. 7

   Theorise and analyse approaches to injury policy and legislation; and

8. 8

   Analyse and evaluate issues in the measurement of injury severity, definition, burden and outcome.