HMF702 - Healthy and Sustainable Agricultural Communities
|Year||2015 unit information|
|Enrolment modes:||Trimester 2: Cloud (online)|
Susan Brumby, Director, National Centre for Farmer Health, Telephone: +61 3 5551 8460, email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin
Note:Scholarships are available for this unit, please refer to the Farmer Health website
This unit addresses social, cultural and environmental factors that result in high rates of lifestyle disease, unsafe work practices and raised levels of mental illness amongst agricultural workers, their families and communities. This unit aims to improve the understanding of the diverse and intergenerational factors leading to this health imbalance by highlighting the key determinants of agricultural health and medicine both in Australia and internationally. Important agricultural topics covered in this unit include provision of safe work environment, access to health and education services, health literacy, social isolation, biosecurity, rural networks, the physical, mental and social impact of climate variability and agricultural lifestyle disease. A better knowledge of these factors will improve the effectiveness of current health, education and community interventions and promote health as a cornerstone to the sustainability and productivity of rural and remote communities.
Assessment task 1: Written assignment (2500 to 3000 words) 40%
Assessment task 2: Online test (45 minutes) 20%
Assessment task 3: Cloud (online) exercises (comprising input to online discussions 10% and case studies 10%) 20%
Assessment task 4: Short answer assignment (1000 words) 20%
Unit Fee Information
|Student Contribution Rate*||Student Contribution Rate**||Fee rate - Domestic Students||Fee rate - International students|
* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.