Public Health Assignment
Marking criteria: your essay will be marked against the level 7 marking criteria and achievement of the module learning outcomes
Module learning outcomes:
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Public health work deals with complex and dynamic issues, determined and influenced by a range of social, cultural, economic, environmental, political and individual factors. Public health work is seen as being most effective when it acknowledges the complexity of the type and range, and the interaction between these factors, and develops its interventions accordingly. Increasingly, improving the health of the population will require increasing equality within the population.
Brief: Critically discuss the importance of the social context for promoting public health
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Your essay will need to achieve all three learning outcomes by drawing as appropriate on your reading, discussions and learning in relation to the three main elements of the module
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Health Psychology and the social context
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Social determinants of health and health inequalities
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Policy in, and for, public health
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You may choose to focus on a current public health topic as a focus throughout your essay
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OR alternatively you may discuss a range of public health issues to illustrate your discussion
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The essay should conclude by reaching an overall position on the importance of the social context for promoting public health.
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This may include identifying examples of where the social context has been taken into account and what factors facilitated this.
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Barriers to taking an approach that includes or embraces the social context
