TM5573 - Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc

This subject introduces students to the area of Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion and explores theories and approaches which are be used to prevent or reduce the morbidity and mortally associated with injuries. It provides the student with knowledge and skills to be able to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate their own injury prevention interventions. It explores the breadth of injury prevention activities, risk factors and strategies used to understand and prevent injuries. Students will be provided with a range of insights in injury specific areas from drowning to violence; from safe communities to farm safety; from sport safety to child safety. This subject will be of particular value to those working at a community level, within a government agency, for a charity or wanting to know more about how injuries can be prevented. Specific areas which will be covered include: magnitude and burden of the injury problem; contemporary theories of injury prevention; history of injury prevention in Australia and current organisations; epidemiological approaches to injury prevention (coding, classification, and outcomes); standards, laws and legislation; behavioural approaches to injury prevention; developing, implementing and evaluating an injury prevention program; injury prevention and the media; exploration of specific injury topics including, child safety, sport safety, traffic safety, pedestrian safety, drowning, bicycle safety, violence, suicide and self harm, workplace safety, farm safety, rural safety, alcohol and drugs, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Safety, falls, burns and scalds, and animal safety.

Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge of injury prevention and safety promotion theories, methods and approaches;
• Knowledge of specialised injury prevention areas;
• Knowledge of injury prevention epidemiology;
• Ability to implement an injury prevention intervention and evaluate its success;
• Ability to communicate with a range of audiences particularly, policy makers, the public and the media.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Assumed Knowledge:

N/A

Availabilities
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2012
Non-standard start/end 18-Jun-2012 to 16-Nov-2012
Face to face teaching 18-Jun-2012 to 22-Jun-2012
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Richard Franklin, Assoc. Professor Kerrianne Watt
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Richard Franklin, Assoc. Professor Kerrianne Watt, Professor Peter Leggat.
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures - there will be 30 hours of face-to-face lecture, tutorial and practicals in a mini-block format (i.e. 1 week). The rest will be provided externally.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); presentations (20%); assignments (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.