2009 Course Handbook
HLTH801: Ageing and Health: Social and Medical Geographic Perspectives
This unit provides social, demographic and geographical perspectives on ageing and health, and considers ageing as a public health issue. As well as highlighting the differential experience of ageing over time and space, it considers: the relationship between ageing, health, and the environment (built, work, and natural); injury and chronic illness amongst older people; needs assessment for an older population with disability; and health issues for an older migrant population.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Ms Lindie Clark |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
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Faculty of Science |