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GLOH5115: Advocacy for Women's and Children's Health
2026 unit information
Women's and children's health are critically important for the health of a population, as healthy women give birth to healthy babies, who then grow into healthy adults. Ensuring advocacy and equity in their healthcare is essential to providing all individuals, regardless of their circumstances, with access to the resources and support they need. This unit explores why gender-focused advocacy, and its resulting community mobilisation, is such a valuable tool for global health to amplify the voices of communities not yet heard and introduces key approaches to support students to develop their practical skills. This unit provides an introduction to the health status of women and children in resource-poor settings, and highlights the interconnectedness of women's and children's health, and why it is important to monitor and report women and children's health outcomes. This unit presents some of the major causes of morbidity and mortality for women and children around the world, with an overview of the interventions and approaches to improving outcomes from a public health perspective. Throughout the semester a range of experts describe some of the major issues related to the health of women and children. In the tutorials students facilitate a weekly discussion and thus get a deeper understanding of one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality and apply advocacy tools to support skill development.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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MIPH5115 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an enhanced understanding of the magnitude, and major causes of morbidity and mortality for women and children in low resource settings
- LO2. demonstrate familiarity with some of the current public health approaches to improving women’s and children’s health in resource poor settings
- LO3. consider the issues of women and children with a public health lens, in particular issues related to the social, cultural, and economic status of women and children
- LO4. demonstrate advanced understanding of some of the major causes of mortality, and programs to reduce mortality related to a particular low or middle income country.
- LO5. develop higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills.
- LO6. practice collaborative skills and effective teamwork
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 1 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2026
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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