AUT - Public Health
Public Health
The Public Health programmes offer public health education with a community health development perspective. These programmes focus on understanding the social, economic, cultural and other societal structural determinants of health and effective action to enhance community health status.
Students can enter the programme at certificate, diploma or masters level, as below.
Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health (AK3807) 60 points
The PgCertPH builds students’ capability around the key elements of public health, with an emphasis on community health and development. It examines community and population perspectives on health and disease, and health systems responses. It produces capability for interpreting the patterns of health and disease in populations, their determinants and associated factors. It provides an overview of behaviours that contribute to health and disease in the community and the development and implementation of appropriate interventions.
Students complete papers:
589300 Health Development and Policy (20)
589301 Social Epidemiology (20)
589302 Programme Planning and Evaluation (20)
Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (AK3806) 120 points
The PgDipPH consolidates fundamental public health concepts and has an emphasis on community health and development. It examines and consolidates community and population perspectives on health and disease, and health systems responses. It consolidates students ’ ability to understand, define, assess critically and resolve public health and community health problems.
Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health papers (60)
AND three approved optional papers (60)
Master of Public Health (AK3805) 240 points
The MPH programme equips students with the knowledge and competencies to contribute to public health management and policy, disease control and health promotion across a wide range of populations. The MPH provides students with the opportunity to plan, implement and complete a practice project or an evaluation project or research study in an area of public or community health.
Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health papers (120)
AND
Three approved optional papers totalling 60 points and a 60 point Dissertation (120)
Public Health optional papers are:
588518 Critical Enquiry for Evidence based Practice (20)†
588553 Health Policy Analysis (20)†
588581 Māori Health Care Practice (20)†
588582 Māori Health Research (20)
588583 Contextualising Māori Health (20)†
588631 Quantitative Research Methods (20)†
588632 Integrative Research Methods (20)
588639 Qualitative Research Methods (20)†
588716 Special topic (20)
588724 Physical Activity and Health Promotion (20)†
588734 Health Economics (20)†
588735 Health Law (20)†
589110 Nutrition and Health Promotion (20)†
589303 Biostatistics (20)
589304 Community Environmental Health (20)
589305 Creating Capacity for Community Development (20)
589584 Psychosocial Aspects of Emergencies (20)
589586 Leading in Emergency Situations (20)
589589 Building Resilient Communities (20)
589649 Leadership and Management (20)†
589681 Concepts of Rehabilitation (20)†
589590 Building Sustainable Communities
589591 Community Action Planing
589810 Applied Health Care Ethics
OR
Optional papers may be undertaken with the approval of the Associate Dean Postgraduate.
† Flexible learning: involves online, block course or distance learning (subject to change)