Food insecurity in Nigeria's southwest: Covid 19 implications.

Exploring Food Insecurity Amidst the Covid 19 Pandemic in Southwest Nigeria

Public Health Nutrition

Essay must be in Arial 11 or Times New Roman font size 12

Please use APA referencing convention

Please note that if your work exceeds the specified limit(s), it will be marked up to the word limit (plus or minus 10%) only. The number of words you have used in the assessment must be stated at the end of the main body of your answer. Materials listed in your bibliography or appendices will not be included in your word count

You should produce no more than 4 PowerPoint slides. As a minimum you should cover:

slide 1 - the essay title and a brief rationale i.e. why is it an appropriate topic to explore?
slide 2 - issues relating to policy & practice
slide 3 - sociological issues and psychological issues
slide 4 - synthesis/preliminary conclusions/areas for further research/recommendations for practice/reflection.

Please also remember that, depending on your topic, there may not be equal coverage of psychological, sociological and policy/practice aspects, but you MUST explain this imbalance/emphasis in your introduction

Write 3000 words essay that is appropriate for an academic audience on an aspect of public health (policy) relating to diet and/or physical activity.

You are required to select, analyse and critically evaluate the policy context as well as sociological and psychological concepts and theories underpinning this topic area.

Checklist of what your essay should incude- links to marking criteria

Title: Exploring food insecurity amidst the Covid 19 Pandemic in Southwest Nigeria, and its implications for public health policy. Does the impact persist?
WHAT is the topic/issue? At what level is your focus? individual, household/family, community/locality, national, international? Population, life stage, nutritional component, physical activity other……
My main brief summary of my argument What is the key thing you want to explore/explain/look at – what might you be aiming to conclude about this?
WHY is it a public health issue?
Not all of these 3 (Policy, Sociology, psychology) will be even in any essay some aspects will be more relevant depending on the topic chosen and the argument you are making
Policy Context: What is currently being done about this? e.g. what is the policy framework? international/national/local What does the service/intervention look like? What are the underpinning approaches? Is it effective? What are the key problems/benefits/challenges?	Analyse and critically evaluate the policy context. Globally and locally
Sociological aspects/issues: What are the key sociological issues here? - consider which of the social influences on health have the greatest relevance to your chosen topic. Think about socio-economic aspects, socio-cultural aspects (links to psychological aspects)
Psychological aspects/issues What are the key psychological issues here? - consider the psychological dimensions in relation to social influences on health especially around norms, values, perceptions, lived experience, lifestyle and behaviour (change).