Social Bases of Health: Global Perspectives

    Unit code: SHE3001 | Study level: Undergraduate
    12
    (Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
    Footscray Park
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    Overview

    This unit exposes students to sociological approaches to health, wellbeing and disease and asks questions such as: who gets sick, who is healthy, how diseases are understood, and how health care practices are distributed and organised. Health and wellbeing are considered from individual and population perspectives with a particular focus on the social distribution and patterning of health and illness, inequalities in health, experiences of health and illness and the politics of health care.The unit focuses on both the Australian and global health contexts and students will participate in a ‘public sociology’ project to engage with sociological knowledge about health and suggest ways to improve health outcomes among at-risk groups using a social model of health.

    Learning Outcomes

    On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

    1. Argue how social and cultural factors affect health outcomes at individual and population levels using sociological concepts and evidence;
    2. Investigate a global health issue using a social model of health; and,
    3. Contextualise sociological aspects of health to a non-specialist audience.

    Assessment

    For Melbourne campuses

    Assessment type: Report
    |
    Grade: 25%
    Reading summary and critical review
    Assessment type: Report
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    Grade: 25%
    Empirical task write-up
    Assessment type: Creative Works
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    Grade: 25%
    Creative piece and presentation
    Assessment type: Exercise
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    Grade: 25%
    Unit summary and topic reflection

    Required reading

    Selected readings will be made available via the unit VU Collaborate site.

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