New Zealand Diploma in Health Science (Level 5)

If you're passionate about promoting good nutrition and advocating for healthy lifestyle choices, particularly in how nutrition and wellbeing can affect whānau and communities, our new health science diploma is for you.

The health and wellbeing industry needs more professionals who can apply their scientific knowledge of the human body to assist people in the prevention of lifestyle-based health issues. 

This course will prepare you for a career in the health, lifestyle, nutrition and wellness industries. It's also a great pathway to higher education if you’re aiming to become an allied or Māori health professional - such as a dental therapist, dietician, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and many more, all of which are in high demand in our region.

This course includes a high level of Māori health content and includes the following:

• Māori concepts of health including hauora and mauri ora, and health and environment
• Māori models of health such as Te Pae Mahutonga 
• Social determinants of health, including health inequities
• Mental health
• Mate hinengaro
• Māori development
• Māori identity
• Demographics
• Lifestyle and nutrition 
• Te Reo Māori hei Reo Tiaki (the language of caring)
• Working with Māori communities
• Māori health promotion 
• Models of health administration and service development
• Political, social, economic and legal influences 
• Rights of the client
• Māori, regional specific/iwi partnership 
• Codes of care, ethics, and practice 
• Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (HPCA) 2003
• Professional bodies and obligations
• Policy and strategy review and alignment to Te Tiriti O Waitangi
• Communication skills
• Teamwork
• Anatomy and Physiology

Upon successfully completing the requirements you'll receive the award of:

• New Zealand Diploma in Health Science (Level 5)

Graduates will be prepared for careers in the health, lifestyle, nutrition and wellness industries.

This course also provides a foundation for higher learning opportunities in the allied health professions covered by the Health Practitioner Competence Assurance Act 2003 (dental therapists, dieticians, medical scientists, medical radiation/imaging technologists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists as an example), and those therapy professions acknowledged in the act such as social work, speech language therapy, orthotists/productionists, music and other arts therapy.