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OLET1518: Health Challenges: Weight Regulation
2025 unit information
This Open Learning Environment unit of study is designed to provide its students with a basic understanding of factors that affect weight regulation in humans. Over and undernutrition remain serious public health concerns, and hence weight regulation is an area of growing interest, significance and urgency. This unit will cover basic physiology involved in body weight regulation. It will explore basic key factors that can override these physiological mechanisms, including eating behaviour psychology, genetic influences and impact of the environment. These factors will be discussed with reference weight dysregulation (obesity and eating disorders). This unit of study has been developed by academics in the University's Charles Perkins Centre, an interdisciplinary education and research hub where researchers produce novel solutions to chronic disease.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Department of Medical Sciences |
| Credit points | 2 |
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. 1. Explain intermediate concepts of physiological weight homeostasis and energy balance
- LO2. 2. Identify basic and novel non-homeostatic factors affecting weight regulation
- LO3. Interpret how biological energy balance regulation influences their behaviours
- LO4. Appraise information on weight regulation and evaluate its validity and credibility
Unit availability
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Intensive July - August 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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