Communicable Disease Control
Duration
- 1 semester
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Examine the role of immunisation in managing communicable diseases from the Australian and global perspectives.
2. Interpret how host-pathogen interactions and environmental factors influence the transmission of communicable diseases.
3. Critique the role of public health disease surveillance and epidemiological techniques in the investigation of communicable disease outbreaks.
4. Differentiate the public health and environmental systems for preventing and controlling communicable diseases in Australia.
5. Categorise the major emergence factors that contribute to the spread of new communicable diseases.
Courses with unit
GD-SCBIO Graduate Diploma of Science (Biotechnology)
MA-SCBIO Master of Science (Biotechnology)
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Lecture Tutorial |
2 1 |
12 12 |
24 12 |
Online Contact | N/A |
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Specified Learning Activities Readings, discussion boards | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, assignment preparation, revision | Recommended |
| 90 |
TOTAL |
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| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Mid-Semester Test | Individual | 40% | 1, 2 |
Assignment 1 | Individual | 25% | 3, 4 |
Assignment 2 | Individual | 35% | 2, 4, 5 |
General skills outcomes
During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases
• Immunisation requirements and procedures in Australia
• Social determinants of health and vaccination
• Principles of epidemiology and outbreak investigation
• Communicable disease surveillance
• Public health legislation and notifiable diseases
• Principles of infection control in skin penetration premises
• Emerging communicable diseases
Study resources
- Reading materials.