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GLOH5136: Nutrition in Global Settings
2025 unit information
This unit aims to provide students with insights into the major nutrition-related public health problems globally; knowledge and practical skills about nutritional assessment; and the design and evaluation of programs and policy to optimise nutrition and environmental sustainability. The content areas include an overview of nutrition as a major determinant of health and disease; methods to assess community nutritional status; the impact of maternal and child under-nutrition on mortality and overall disease burden; design and evaluation of effective interventions; issues surrounding food security; agriculture and nutrition; and nutrition policies. On completion, students should be able to recognise key nutritional problems facing communities globally; have acquired knowledge and practical skills as to how to assess these problems; and have gained insights into different multi-sectoral approaches to address these problems.
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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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Introductory knowledge of epidemiology and biostatistics |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. design nutritional assessment for specific settings in low-and-middle income countries
- LO2. describe anthropometric, dietary intake, and biochemical measurement methods for indicators of nutritional status
- LO3. interpret the meaning of anthropometric, dietary intake, and biochemical indicators for nutritional status of children and adults
- LO4. select nutritional status measurements and indicators needed to assess nutritional status in different settings
- LO5. prioritise nutritional disorders and risk factors needing public health interventions in LMICs
- LO6. describe the main nutritional disorders and risk factors facing LMICs
- LO7. evaluate and rank the contribution of nutritional disorders and risk factors to poor population health (mortality, morbidity, and disability adjusted life years)
- LO8. analyse data to identify the most important nutritional disorders and risk factors in different global health settings
- LO9. design and evaluate interventions to address priority public health nutrition problems in LMICs
- LO10. describe different individual and multi-sectoral interventions to improve nutritional status in LIMCs
- LO11. assess the effectiveness of individual and multi-sectoral approaches in improving nutrition
- LO12. choose appropriate interventions to address specific nutrition problems in different settings or countries and argue for including the selected interventions.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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