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9526

POPLHLTH 700

: Community Health Development
2022 Semester One (1223)
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

Outline is not available yet

9527

POPLHLTH 700

: Community Health Development
2021 Semester One (1213)
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

Outline is not available yet

9528

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

Outline is not available yet

9529

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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9530

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

Outline is not available yet

9531

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

Outline is not available yet

9532

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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9533

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

Outline is not available yet

9534

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

Outline is not available yet

9535

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

Outline is not available yet

9536

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

9537

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

9538

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

9539

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

Outline is not available yet

9540

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

9541

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

Outline is not available yet

9542

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

Outline is not available yet

9543

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

Outline is not available yet

9544

POPLHLTH 761

: Special Topic: Women, Gender and Health
2020 Semester One (1203)
Examines gender as a social determinant of health and explores the links between inequality, social structures and women's health. Covers critical theories of women's health drawing on feminism, sociology, law and politics, human rights and cultural studies. Violence, HIV/AIDS, disability, abortion, new reproductive technologies, infertility, NCDs, occupational health, migrant health, and the role of men are analysed using gender frameworks.
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9545

POPLHLTH 763

: Human Vaccinology
2024 Semester One (1243)
Provides an examination of vaccinology as applied to humans and its application in the health sector. Includes consideration of immunology, vaccine form and function and vaccine design; through to vaccine development and manufacture, vaccine safety, immunisation controversies, policy and schedule. A core theme throughout the course will be communication of vaccine science including risk communication to different audiences including health professionals and the community.
Subject: Population Health
Restriction: POPLPRAC 755

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9546

POPLHLTH 766

: Special Topic
2024 Semester One (1243)
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9547

POPLHLTH 768

: Special Studies in Addiction and Mental Health
2025 Semester One (1253)
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9548

POPLHLTH 768

: Special Studies in Addiction and Mental Health
2024 Semester One (1243)
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9549

POPLHLTH 768

: Special Studies in Addiction and Mental Health
2023 Semester One (1233)
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

9550

POPLHLTH 768

: Special Studies in Addiction and Mental Health
2020 Semester One (1203)
Subject: Population Health
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet