Learn how health services and programs are designed and delivered to promote positive community health and prevent disease and disability. You will learn how to work with communities to promote health and understand the role of health services, health policy and healthcare decision making, while examining the role of human behaviour in the incidence, prevention and progression of illness. During the degree you will complete foundation studies in the health sciences and learn how to apply this knowledge to health promotion and health behaviours, physical activity, nutrition and the planning of health services. You will gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of these issues, the skills to analyse these situations and develop programs to address them. You will apply this knowledge in your third year, where you will spend 90 hours on placement in non-clinical health-related organisations around metropolitan and rural Australia.

Graduates may work in either the public and private health care sectors, dealing with health issues as varied as anti-smoking campaigns, communicable disease, drug and alcohol use, Indigenous health, chronic disease and women's health. Those students seeking non-clinical careers in health promotion or health services management will be at the front-line in improving health care delivery through their roles as health promotion officers, health managers, nutritionists and health researchers. As with most 3-year University degrees, employment prospects and remuneration will be enhanced by further study. Students seeking a clinical career (treating or testing patients) may complete this program and then, subject to entry requirements, pursue a clinical postgraduate or graduate-entry degree such as the Doctor of Medicine or Master of Dietetics Studies. Completion of an Honours year and a PhD may lead to an academic career in the university sector.