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9976

POPLHLTH 700

: Community Health Development
2020 Semester One (1203)
Provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theories, and frameworks for undertaking community-level health development. Special emphasis on empowering and critical perspectives and the implications for health and determinants at a community-level of focus. Informed by current research and a comparative case study approach, the paper examines the opportunities and challenges in the delivery of health for, and by, diverse communities in New Zealand and globally.
Subject: Population Health
Corequisite: POPLHLTH 722

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9977

POPLHLTH 707

: Statistics in Health Science 2
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Develops and builds on elementary statistical methods and prepares the student for advanced epidemiological and statistical analysis.
Subject: Population Health
Prerequisite: POPLHLTH 706

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9978

POPLHLTH 708

: Epidemiology
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Examines epidemiological study design, measures of effect, screening, appropriate statistics for epidemiology, with a focus on public health epidemiology.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9979

POPLHLTH 711

: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
2025 Semester Two (1255)
The principles and critical appraisal of interventional systematic reviews and meta-analysis and their role in evidence-based practice. Topics include: protocol development, question formulation, identification of evidence, selection of studies for inclusion, appraisal and quality of included studies, extraction and recording of data, synthesis (meta-analysis) and interpretation of results and application.
Subject: Population Health
Prerequisite: POPLHLTH 708 or 709 or equivalent experience
Restriction: POPLHLTH 315

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9980

POPLHLTH 711

: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
2024 Semester Two (1245)
The principles and critical appraisal of interventional systematic reviews and meta-analysis and their role in evidence-based practice. Topics include: protocol development, question formulation, identification of evidence, selection of studies for inclusion, appraisal and quality of included studies, extraction and recording of data, synthesis (meta-analysis) and interpretation of results and application.
Subject: Population Health
Prerequisite: POPLHLTH 708 or 709 or equivalent experience

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9981

POPLHLTH 715

: Global Public Health
2025 Semester One (1253)
Explores the globally distributed factors that impact health outcomes from a global perspective. Topics covered include principles of global health cooperation, patterns of disease and disability, global health governance, financing, leadership, and diplomacy for achieving health equity.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9982

POPLHLTH 715

: Global Public Health
2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores global health from a public health perspective, with a strong emphasis on health and its determinants in developing countries. Topics covered include the global burden of risk and disease, global environmental challenges to health, international health governance, international healthcare financing and international health promotion.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9983

POPLHLTH 719

: Health Economics
2025 Semester One (1253)
Fundamental economic concepts and their application to healthcare. Provides students with some analytical skills with which to address issues and problems in the funding and organisation of health services.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9984

POPLHLTH 724

: Quality in Health Care
2025 Semester One (1253)
Quality healthcare is examined with an emphasis on strategies that enable individuals, teams, and services within healthcare organisations to implement and sustain performance improvement. Allows students to explore the quality principles to an area of their own choice.
Subject: Population Health
Restriction: NURSING 775

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9985

POPLHLTH 726

: Health Protection
2024 Semester One (1243)
Current issues will be used to illustrate principles of health protection as an element of public health at local and national levels. The main inter-related topic areas within health protection (communicable disease control and surveillance; non-communicable disease control; food safety; alcohol and tobacco; air and water quality) will be discussed, along with identification of health hazards, development of prevention strategies, and field implementation methods.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9986

POPLHLTH 733

: Health Promotion Theory and Models
2025 Semester One (1253)
Examines the values, theories and practice models of health promotion and in particular, an approach to the social determinants of health and health equity that seeks to empower individuals and groups to deal with these issues.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9987

POPLHLTH 733

: Health Promotion Theory and Models
2020 Semester One (1203)
Examines the values, theories and practice models of health promotion and in particular, an approach to the social determinants of health and health equity that seeks to empower individuals and groups to deal with these issues.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9988

POPLHLTH 735

: Mental Health Development: Theory and Principles
2024 Semester One (1243)
Mental Health Development (MHD) represents an emergent paradigm in the mental health sector, one which emphasises strengths, resilience and positive quality of life. It is applicable to all people, including those with mental illness, and to all aspects of mental health and social services. The course has a particular focus on the treatment and recovery for individuals affected by mental health problems.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9989

POPLHLTH 735

: Mental Health Development: Theory and Principles
2021 Semester One (1213)
Mental Health Development (MHD) represents an emergent paradigm in the mental health sector, one which emphasises strengths, resilience and positive quality of life. It is applicable to all people, including those with mental illness, and to all aspects of mental health and social services. The course has a particular focus on the treatment and recovery for individuals affected by mental health problems.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9990

POPLHLTH 735

: Mental Health Development: Theory and Principles
2020 Semester One (1203)
Mental Health Development (MHD) represents an emergent paradigm in the mental health sector, one which emphasises strengths, resilience and positive quality of life. It is applicable to all people, including those with mental illness, and to all aspects of mental health and social services. The course has a particular focus on the treatment and recovery for individuals affected by mental health problems.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9991

POPLHLTH 737

: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Studies
2022 Semester One (1223)
Provides an introduction and overview to studies on alcohol and other drugs. Incorporates theory and research developed within public health, mental health, and specialised treatment frameworks. Topics will include: coverage of historical developments, a review of major theoretical issues and an overview of current trends.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9992

POPLHLTH 737

: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Studies
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Provides an introduction and overview to studies on alcohol and other drugs. Incorporates theory and research developed within public health, mental health, and specialised treatment frameworks. Topics will include: coverage of historical developments, a review of major theoretical issues and an overview of current trends.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9993

POPLHLTH 738

: Biology of Addiction
2024 Semester Two (1245)
Explores the genetic and neurobiological factors that predispose individuals to develop addiction. The neuropharmacology of the main drugs of abuse and factors that are responsible for the variability in drug response (i.e. pharmacokinetics) will be presented. Current neurobiological models of addiction will be considered.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9994

POPLHLTH 738

: Biology of Addiction
2022 Semester Two (1225)
Explores the genetic and neurobiological factors that predispose individuals to develop addiction. The neuropharmacology of the main drugs of abuse and factors that are responsible for the variability in drug response (i.e. pharmacokinetics) will be presented. Current neurobiological models of addiction will be considered.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9995

POPLHLTH 738

: Biology of Addiction
2021 Semester One (1213)
Explores the genetic and neurobiological factors that predispose individuals to develop addiction. The neuropharmacology of the main drugs of abuse and factors that are responsible for the variability in drug response (i.e. pharmacokinetics) will be presented. Current neurobiological models of addiction will be considered.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9996

POPLHLTH 738

: Biology of Addiction
2020 Semester One (1203)
Explores the genetic and neurobiological factors that predispose individuals to develop addiction. The neuropharmacology of the main drugs of abuse and factors that are responsible for the variability in drug response (i.e. pharmacokinetics) will be presented. Current neurobiological models of addiction will be considered.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9997

POPLHLTH 739

: Pacific Health
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines a wide range of health issues related to Pacific health. Provides an in-depth analysis with evidence of the global, regional and local issues that determines the health of the Pacific population both in the Pacific region and in New Zealand.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9998

POPLHLTH 746

: Ethics, Culture and Societal Approaches to Death
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Approaches to death by Māori and other cultures. Resource and legal issues in the New Zealand context. Ethical issues: euthanasia versus palliative care, privacy, living wills and end of life medical decision-making; particularly treatment abatement. Duties after death, the nature of teamwork, the multidisciplinary nature of palliative care, the role of volunteers, emotional self care for palliative care providers, and home versus residential care.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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9999

POPLHLTH 750

: Research Project in Population Health
2022 Semester Two (1225)
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

10000

POPLHLTH 755A

: Applied Research Project
2022 Semester One (1223)
Provides a supervised learning experience for students in their place of work in the health sector. Students must undertake project work and write a report documenting the work undertaken, the results arising, and the learning obtained.
Subject: Population Health
To complete this course students must enrol in POPLHLTH 755 A and B, or POPLHLTH 755

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