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PUBH5039: Public Health Nutrition Essentials
2021 unit information
The unit provides students with a deeper understanding of key public health nutrition practices and principles which will enable them to better understand and address population nutrition issues. There will be a strong focus on understanding dietary intake assessment and the use of data generated from nutrition surveys to improve the understanding of nutrition epidemiological studies and the relationship between diet and chronic disease. The concept of nutrition environments will be central to the exploration of community nutrition status and how dietary interventions are planned and evaluated. Global and local food and nutrition policy issues will be addressed and related to sustainability and environmental health concerns. The teaching approach involves class interaction and provides opportunities for self-reflection.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Public Health
| Code | PUBH5039 |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. To identify major health issues associated with poor nutrition in both developed and developing country settings. To explain the basis for setting priorities. To outline the range of perspectives regarding nutrition as a public health issue.
- LO2. List the steps involved in identifying the nutrition needs of a population, and apply them in assessing a food and nutrition situation in a population
- LO3. Locate and interpret current information about the nutritional status of the population.
- LO4. Describe considerations and approaches to selecting priority nutrition problems to be addressed in a population.
- LO5. Identify a range of strategies that can be used to address a nutrition problem in the population and the basis for their selection.
- LO6. Prepare public health nutrition strategies to tackle population nutrition problems
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