Health professionals who provide child health services including senior house officers and registrars as well as general practitioners, child health nurses, practice nurses, paediatric nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists who wish to improve their knowledge of community child health may take this paper as a Certificate of Proficiency (COP).
About this paper
| Paper title | Community Child Health |
|---|---|
| Subject | Child Health |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period(s) | 1st Non standard period (9 February 2026 - 12 July 2026)
(Distance learning)
2nd Non standard period (13 July 2026 - 7 December 2026) (Distance learning) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $3,486.75 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Restriction
- CHHX 701
- Limited to
- DCH, MHealSc, PGDipHealSc
- Notes
- A compulsory paper for DCH; may also be taken by other approved health professionals.
- Eligibility
CHHE 701 is part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Child Health (DCH). In addition, health professionals are eligible to enrol for CHHE 701 as part of other health based qualifications and also on its own as a Certificate of Proficiency (COP).
- Contact
Paper Administrator
Paediatrics and Child Health
Email: childhealth.distance@otago.ac.nz
Tel: +64 3 556 6136
Tel: Ask Otago: 0800 808 098
- More information link
- View more information about this paper on the Postgraduate Programmes in Child Health website
- Teaching staff
Course Convenor: Dr Gloria Dainty
The teaching staff are a team of experts, drawn from the clinical medical schools of the University of Otago and beyond.
- Paper Structure
- This is a distance-taught paper covering community aspects of child health and child health services.
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.
Consisting of hour-long Wednesday evening audioconferences conducted weekly over 16 weeks. Internet access is needed for access to Zoom and additional teaching and reading material, which is available on Moodle.
- Textbooks
No compulsory text - there are pre and post readings for each week's module available through eReserve on Moodle as well as links to other relevant material in the weekly module folders.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Interdisciplinary perspective, lifelong learning, communication, critical thinking.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
The goals of the paper are
- To provide opportunity for postgraduate students from a range of disciplines, including medicine and nursing, to study community child health
- To help place the clinical component of the Diploma in Child Health in a community context
- To complement the clinical, hospital-based part of the Diploma in Child Health requirements with formal teaching in some aspects of community child health
Health professionals who provide child health services including senior house officers and registrars, as well as general practitioners, child health nurses, practice nurses, paediatric nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists who wish to improve their knowledge of community child health may take this paper as a Certificate of Proficiency (COP).
About this paper
| Paper title | Community Child Health |
|---|---|
| Subject | Child Health |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period(s) | 1st Non standard period (8 February 2027 - 18 July 2027)
(Distance learning)
2nd Non standard period (19 July 2027 - 6 December 2027) (Distance learning) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Restriction
- CHHX 701
- Limited to
- DCH, MHealSc, PGDipHealSc
- Notes
- A compulsory paper for DCH; may also be taken by other approved health professionals.
- Eligibility
CHHE 701 is part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Child Health (DCH). In addition, health professionals are eligible to enrol for CHHE 701 as part of other health based qualifications and also on its own as a Certificate of Proficiency (COP).
- Contact
Email: childhealth.distance@otago.ac.nz
Tel: +64 3 556 6136
- More information link
View more information about this paper on the Postgraduate Programmes in Child Health website.
- Teaching staff
Course Convener: Dr Emma Heydon
The teaching staff are a team of experts, drawn from the clinical medical schools of the University of Otago and beyond.
- Paper Structure
This is a distance-taught paper covering community aspects of child health and child health services.
- Teaching Arrangements
This distance learning paper is taught remotely.
Consisting of an hour-long Wednesday evening audioconferences conducted weekly over 16 weeks. Internet access is needed for access to Zoom and additional teaching and reading material, which is available on Moodle.
- Textbooks
No compulsory text. There are pre and post readings for each week's module available through eReserve on Moodle, as well as links to other relevant material in the weekly module folders.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Communication, Critical thinking.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
The goals of the paper are:
- To provide an opportunity for postgraduate students from a range of disciplines, including medicine and nursing, to study community child health.
- To help place the clinical component of the Diploma in Child Health in a community context.
- To complement the clinical, hospital-based part of the Diploma in Child Health requirements with formal teaching in some aspects of community child health.