PHCA9501 Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing

This topic is a foundational topic for anyone interested in public health. The topic will look at core values and principles in current public health including equity, empowerment. It will introduce students to primary health care and the history of the development of public health. This topic will look at different approaches to the Social determinants of health and well being including the structural factors and conditions affecting human populations. The topic will also introduce the concept of empowerment and processes of change linked to it especially considering the broad implications for change agent roles in public health.

This topic aims to enable students to have a foundation understanding of the ways in which health is conceptualized in public health, how it came to be conceptualized in these ways and how these concepts are currently applied in public health.

1. Explain the historical development of current approaches to public health
2. Analyze the relationships between social determinants of health and health status, using relevant theoretical approaches
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the implications of a social determinants of health approach for action for change in public health