Module overview
This module develops your understanding of the wider social and political context within which the formation of public health policies and programmes operate both domestically and internationally. The module will enable you to develop and demonstrate competence for effective practice in the community in your own area of work
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The terminology and be able to explain how policies and strategies affect public health.
- The systematic rationale for an evidence-based approach to identifying and solving public health problems at the local, national, regional and international level.
- The complexity of the policy context and be able to explain how policy is made and public health issues are identified.
- The theories and models of programme/project management and their application.
- The major public health policies relevant to your own area of work and how to articulate the organisations responsible for them.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Contribute to the development of specific policies and programmes within public health.
- Critically examine the constraints to effective implementation of public health programmes in the community.
- Critically evaluate contemporary theories in policy and programme development.
- Critically assess and apply the appropriate steps in planning public health programmes/projects.
- Assess and provide information or feedback on how policies and programmes have helped or hindered people’s health and wellbeing.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Use relevant programme/project management tools such as Gantt charts.
- Develop, plan and evaluate programmes/ projects related to public health.
Syllabus
- Current key health and wellbeing policies in own area of work at UK and international levels
- Role of Agencies: International (UN) and national, NGOs, charities etc
- Policy and programme development
- Programme/project planning, management and risk assessment
- Policy and programme evaluation
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching and learning strategies will include formal lectures, workshops, case studies and active participation learning. The emphasis will be on student centred learning in which you will be supported by a wide range of resources often delivered electronically. Staff, tutors and colleagues will support your professional learning. Most teaching will be face-to-face and a few lectures may be delivered online.
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 40 |
Independent Study | 160 |
Total study time | 200 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Noncommunicable diseases and mental health.
Essential Public Health: Theory and Practice..
Textbooks
Guest C et al. (2013). Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Oxford: Oxford Medical Handbooks.
Aceijas C. (2011). Assessing evidence to improve population health and wellbeing.. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
There will be two formative and one summative assessments. The formative assessments are i) a workshop on critical policy analysis and ii) presentation on an intervention. The summative assessments is an individual written plan for an intervention with a Gantt chart for the intervention. The pass mark for the module is 50%. If you have failed the module, the Board of Examiners may offer you the opportunity to submit work at the next referral (re-sit) opportunity. On passing your referrals, your final module mark will be capped at 50%.
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Seminar presentation
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Verbal
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Policy Review
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Verbal
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: Yes
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Individual written plan | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Individual written plan | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External