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Health
Dual degree programs
– Business Management
Additional cost
– Senior First Aid Certificate (including CPR)
(approximately $155)
International contact details
International Student Advisor
Online: www.uq.edu.au/international/enquiry
Phone: within Australia (free call): 1800 671 980
Outside Australia: +61 3 8676 7004
Bachelor of
Health Sciences
Program code 2252
Location Ipswich
Commencement semester 1, 2
Duration Three years full-time
Admission requirements Year 12 or equivalent
English (see page 92). It is highly recommended that
students undertake one of Year 12 or equivalent
Chemistry, Physics, Biology or Multistrand Science.
Honours Available as an additional year of study
Program outline
The Bachelor of Health Sciences provides a broad
overview of health care, and will be particularly
suited to you if you intend to enrol in a postgraduate
professional degree (e.g., medicine, allied health,
public health, dietetics) or wish to enter the nonclinical
health workforce (e.g., health promotion,
health management) planning and delivering efficient
quality health care.
If you are seeking a clinical career, you may
initially enrol in the Bachelor of Health Sciences
and then, after graduation, pursue a clinical
postgraduate or graduate entry degree, depending
on academic performance. If you have a high
academic performance, you may seek to transfer
into a clinical undergraduate program while enrolled
in the Bachelor of Health Sciences. If you are within
the Year 12 Provisional Entry quota for Medicine, the
dual degree Bachelor of Health Sciences/Bachelor
of Medicine/Surgery is available. This program will
provide you with a solid grounding in preventive
health care, and is considered one of the preferred
pathways to a medical career.
Some elective courses are only available at the St
Lucia campus. For more information, see:
www.uq.edu.au/health/sciencesdegree
Placement courses
HLTH3001 Practicum in Health Sciences has been
developed to provide final year Health Sciences
students with hands-on experience in a healthrelated
work environment. You will use your
accumulated knowledge and skill base to prepare
for future employment and will learn important
vocational skills. You must hold a Blue Card
(Working with Children Check) and a Hepatitis B
vaccination (Queensland Health request).
Some elective courses are only available at the St
Lucia campus.
Majors
Health Promotion and Population Health
In this major, you will examine how health services
(e.g., aged care) and programs (e.g., anti-smoking
campaigns) are designed and delivered, their
effectiveness, and how they are evaluated and
modified to improve service and program outcomes
to facilitate community health and prevent disease
and disability. Health Promotion and Population
Health graduates aim to improve the health of the
entire population and to reduce health inequities
among population groups.
Health Services Management
As a future healthcare manager, you will learn how
to plan, manage and evaluate health services to
ensure the goals for quality of care, costs, ethical
issues, equity and legislation are met. You will
gain in-depth knowledge of these issues and the
skills to critically analyse situations during your
program, which will be very useful for your later
work in managing the financial or human resource
aspects of providing service within a public or
private hospital; establishing, maintaining and
evaluating community health programs such as new
immunisation programs; managing private health
insurance companies; and working with clinical
teams to develop information technology initiatives
such as e-health.
Indigenous Health
The Indigenous Health major provides in-depth
knowledge and skills related to key aspects of public
health practice applied to Indigenous populations:
health promotion, social science, policy, and services.
Units of study are devoted to some of the specific
health issues that are important to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities: nutrition, alcohol
and substance use, and communicable disease
control. These can be expanded upon with further
elective study. The major also offers the opportunity
for individual experience within an Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander organisation. The Indigenous
Health major will equip you to work within Indigenous
organisations, and also in a range of mainstream
settings where your awareness of issues and practice
will promote improved engagement of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people. The major will enhance
your readiness for remote community work.
Nutrition
Human nutrition is a global term that concerns
the way that foods and nutrients are acquired and
used. It includes studies in biomedical science,
biochemistry, nutrition, behavioural sciences
and food sciences. The Nutrition major includes
supporting studies in health systems, public health,
and Indigenous health. This will enable you to
work as a community nutritionist, encouraging
the population to achieve healthier eating and
reducing the burden of diet-related disease. The
degree provides the basis for further studies in
public health, health management or research.
The Bachelor of Health Sciences with the Nutrition
major is a recommended pathway to the Master of
Dietetics Studies, and satisfies all the prerequisite
courses required for that program.
Career opportunities
Public and private healthcare sector dealing with
health issues as varied as anti-smoking campaigns,
communicable disease, drug and alcohol use,
Indigenous health, chronic disease, and women’s
health.
Graduates seeking non-clinical careers in health
care will find employment in the broad areas of
health promotion or health services management,
and will be at the front-line in improving delivery of
health care through their roles as health promotion
officers, health managers and health researchers.
Specialist areas:
Specialist areas:
Health Promotion and Population Health:
health promotion practitioners and educators,
community health officers, policy officers, program
evaluators, project officers and consultants in
both public and private sectors, including state
and federal health departments, population
health units, community health centres, divisions
of general practice, non-governmental health
organisations, and international health agencies.
Health Services Management: Government and
non-government organisations: managing the
financial or human resource aspects of service
provision within a public or private hospital;
establishing, maintaining and evaluating community
health programs, such as new immunisation
programs; managing private health insurance
companies; and working with clinical teams to
develop information technology initiatives, such as
e-health.
Nutrition: Health promotion or community health.
Dual degree programs
– Medicine/Surgery
International contact details
International Student Advisor
Online: www.uq.edu.au/international/enquiry
Phone: within Australia (free call): 1800 671 980
Outside Australia: +61 3 8676 7004
Bachelor of
Health, Sport and
Physical Education
Program code 2313
Location St Lucia
Commencement semester 1
Duration Four years full-time
Admission requirements Year 12 or equivalent
English and one of Biological Science, Chemistry or
Physics (see page 92)
Honours A modified program of study in Years 3
and 4, with entry based on grade point average
Program outline
The Bachelor of Health, Sport and Physical Education
is designed to prepare you for a career in the health
and physical education field. It will also prepare you for
professional practice in sports education and related
areas (i.e. sports coaching and health promotion).
During this program, you will undertake significant
professional practice in a range of vocational settings
from primary and secondary schools; the sport,
health and fitness industry; to sports associations.
Practical experience complements in-depth learning
of the complex and diverse nature of human
movement, from physiological, biomechanical, sociocultural,
psychological, teaching (pedagogical), and
health perspectives.
This program emphasises the essential skills
that are valued by employers such as planning,
organisation, presentation and problem-solving,
thus enhancing your self-confidence and
employability. You will be encouraged to critically
appraise, question and lead change in education,
innovations and research.
In this program, you can study a diverse range
of courses, including biomechanics, motor control,
exercise physiology, physical activity and health,
psychology of sport and exercise, youth, sport and
physical education, and pedagogical applications in
human movement.
Placement courses
Third-year placement consists of a minimum of four
weeks of practice. You will observe a primary program
for five days, participate as a staff member at a
secondary school for at least 10 days, and spend 40
hours in other approved educational settings.
Fourth-year placement is a course that will immerse
you in the life of a school for 10 weeks, particularly the
responsibilities of the Health and Physical Education
(HPE) Dxepartment. You will actively participate as a
staff member for a total of 50 days, teaching a full load
by week five in HPE and Junior Science.
Additional information
You must have a current Blue Card (Working with
Children Check) before beginning your placements
with children.
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