奥塔哥大学

The Bachelor of Health Sciences is a three-year degree for those who want to work in health in the areas of public health, Maori health, Pacific health, in roles such as case managers or care co-ordinators in the healthcare system.

There is an increasing need for public health approaches as we face important health challenges such as an ageing population, increases in chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, limited health resources, and environmental change and its effects on health.

Future health care will see more individual care delivered in the community, and new health care roles will be developed in order to deliver care differently, and help individuals negotiate the jigsaw of services available to patients in the community.

This qualification focuses on the skills to work with patients and communities to promote health, access health-related information, and ensure patients are accessing and receiving the most appropriate care for their conditions.

Community Health Care ensures skilled and qualified people are able to meet the growing need for community health workers to support other health professionals as care is moved into the community.

Graduates will contribute to the health and well-being of individuals and communities through the understanding of humans in health and disease, and of the health care system, and the application of skills to co-ordinate and manage health care for individuals.

Graduates will be equipped with knowledge to be able to enter the health workforce directly, in multiple roles such as case management.

Programme Requirements

100-level

• EDUC 105 Disability Studies: An Introduction
• HUBS 191 Human Body Systems 1
• HUBS 192 Human Body Systems 2
• PUBH 192 Foundations of Epidemiology or POPH 192 Population Health
• EDUC 105 can be taken during the second year of study

200-level

• CMHC 201 Human Health Across the Lifespan
• CMHC 211 Disability and Health I
• MAOH 201 Hauora Maori in Practice: Working with Individuals and whanau
• PACH 201 Pacific Health: New Zealand and the Pacific Region

at least two of

• BITC 201 Bioethics and the Life Sciences
• GEOG 219 Special Topic: Geographies of Health and Well-being
• PATH 201 Foundations in Human Pathology
• PUBH 203 Health Policy and Politics
• PUBH 211 Epidemiology of Global Health Conditions
• SOCI 205 Social Inequality

300-level

• CMHC 301 Applied Aspects of Human Health
• CMHC 311 Disability and Health II
• MAOH 301 Hauora Maori in Practice: Working with Organisations and Communities
• PACH 301 Pacific Health: Advanced Applied Knowledge

Plus

108 further points

The following papers are suggested: ANTH 105, BIOC 192, BSNS 113, CELS 191, CHEM 191, MAOR 102, PACI 101, PSYC 111, PSYC 112; ANAT 241, ANAT 242, BITC 201, MAOR 202, MICR 223, PACI 201, PHAL 211, MELS 251, PSME 201, PSYC 212, PUBH 202; BITC 301, INDV 301, PACI 301, PUBH 311