Health Promotion

Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills to incorporate the principles of public health into specific fields of practice in order to reduce inequalities in health care access and health outcomes.

In Australia, these principles include:

maximising consumer and community participation to enable individuals and communities to be better informed and to be involved in health care decisions
encouraging partnerships between health and non-health sectors to ensure full use of resources
fostering self-management and self-reliance to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in individuals, groups and communities
promoting health and disease prevention to attain and sustain good health and well-being.

Up to 80% off fees due to Government subsidies*.

*Government subsidies enable Flinders to offer Domestic applicants a reduction of up to 80% off full course fees through Commonwealth Supported Places. Offer subject to change.

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Course

Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion

Duration: 6 months

Delivery mode:
In person
Online

Location:
Bedford Park

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time (Semester 2 part-time only)

Start dates:
March
July

SATAC code:
2GC062 (Commonwealth supported)
2GC562 (Full fee paying)

Annual Indicative fees:
$4,655 (2025, Commonwealth supported)
$14,000 (2024, Full fee paying)

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Your career

Public health has become an increasingly significant focus of government plans worldwide, initiating developments at local and national levels within multiple healthcare settings. Graduates are expected to progress into employment in public health policy, management and practice.

Potential occupations include:

public health officer
nutrition adviser
public health senior consultant
health promotion planning and evaluation officer
health information officer
health and safety manager.

What you will study

The program prepares you to analyse theory of the determinants of health and wellbeing, understand models of public health in a range of real-world and workplace problems, appreciate multidisciplinary approaches in health and human services for promoting and improving health, and apply principles of health promotion to clinical or community practice. Topics cover areas such as health promotion in public health, social determinants of health and wellbeing, action on social determinants of health, and primary health care practice in developing countries.

Note: this course articulates into the Master of Public Health.