MPH5256 · Injury epidemiology and prevention

Overview

This unit will cover the principles of injury epidemiology, prevention and control. The unit will provide an introduction to the injury epidemiology and prevention field with a particular focus on issues facing injury surveillance, countermeasure development, injury policy and injury burden estimates.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse and contextualise the concept of injury as a preventable health condition;
2. Identify and describe the context and consequence of burden of injury;
3. Synthesise the principles of injury prevention and control and related models;
4. Identify requirements for and conduct injury surveillance;
5. Analyse and evaluate the strengths and limitations of a variety of research methods used to define the nature and extent of injury;
6. Develop, implement and evaluate injury prevention programs and frameworks for countermeasure development;
7. Theorise and analyse approaches to injury policy and legislation; and
8. Analyse and evaluate issues in the measurement of injury severity, definition, burden and outcome.

Workload

5 day intensive block.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.