Course overview

Overview

• Build on your knowledge of health care, policy and systems with a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours). Through a combination of coursework and original research, you will learn the analytical skills and research techniques that will take you into further study, or employment in the booming health sector.
• Do you have questions about the health of our population you want answered? Why not follow your passions and discover the answers with your own research?
• Contribute to existing studies in the contemporary health sector by completing an honours degree. You will have the opportunity to work with a world-class supervisor who will guide you through all the stages of research from data collection to implementation and execution, helping you produce a piece of independent, original research.

> Focus on an area within the health sciences that you are passionate about. Research themes can include:

• community health
• gambling
• gender, family, reproductive and sexual health
• health, diversity and social inclusion
• health economics
• nature and health
• obesity prevention, healthy food environments and food policy
• physical activity, motor skill competence and self-perception
• refugee health
• sustainability
• violence and abuse, prevention and intervention.

> You will learn more than just your topic of research. You will develop the necessary skills to successfully conduct research, with units designed to build your knowledge of the process.

> You can be confident that your research is guided by the most recent and ground-breaking findings within the health sector. Deakin’s School of Health and Social Development is home to a large range of multidisciplinary research groups, encompassing public health, health promotion, and social, commercial, behavioural, and environmental determinants of health.

> The school addresses the complex connections between determinants of health in their broadest sense, and social development in a variety of settings, and at a range of intervention levels. This means you will be immersed in the work of some of the world’s best researchers.