Youth Health
Youth Health is a multi-disciplinary specialty that aims to support and enhance the healthy development of young people. Youth Health professionals include: nurses, doctors, social workers, mental health workers, public health workers and youth workers. In recognition of the unmet and emerging health needs of today’s youth in New Zealand there is a growing workforce of Youth Health professionals.
To support this workforce a specialisation in Youth Health is now available as part of the Faculty’s Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences.
The Postgraduate Certificate aims to prepare students for a role in youth health in a wide variety of settings and sectors. Examples include school nurses and clinical services that have youth clientele.
The Postgraduate Diploma offers opportunities for students who wish to progress to leadership roles in youth health in such areas as planning and policy, clinical practice and programme leadership.
These programmes aim to equip students with knowledge and skill in the following areas:
- an understanding of youth health status and youth development
- an introduction to critical analysis in relation to current thinking in youth health and youth development
- sound clinical skills in the assessment and management of youth in health and welfare settings
- knowledge of inter-sectorial agencies and providers and an understanding of the importance of collaborative approaches
- synthesis of knowledge and problem solving
- an introduction to health research methodology
- application of learning and demonstration of competence in relevant practice environments
Courses in this subject area are offered in a flexible learning format (one day per month over the course of the semester) at the School of Population Health at Tamaki Campus and may be taken towards a Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences specialising in Youth Health or a Public Health or Medical Science programme. Note that courses PAEDS 719 and PAEDS 720 are now on the Public Health Schedule of courses.
Click here for more information including
a timetable summary of all postgraduate courses offered in flexible mode at the School of Population Health.
Possible programmes
A printable flyer is available for this subject.
 Youth Health flyer (PDF, 179 KB)
Interested?
Interested in Youth Health? Then fill in an online expression of interest
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