NRS503 Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health

Aims & Learning Outcomes

To identify key public health issues and analyse health and social policy to enable the student to develop an understanding of their role in public health, health promotion and reducing health and social inequalities.

At the end of the module the learner will be expected to be able to:

1. Drawing on global, national and local data, demonstrate a critical awareness and understanding of contemporary public health issues within a policy context.

2. Analyse the social, economic, political and ecological challenges inimplementing public health initiatives at an international, national and local level.

3. Demonstrate detailed understanding of the wider determinants of health thatmay lead to inequalities in health outcomes

4. Provide an analysis of the principles of health promotion, protection and improvement.

Summative assessment criteria

5. Assessment

This section should be read in conjunction with the Programme Handbook

Assessment Criteria:

Group presentation analysing a contemporary public health issue for a chosen population and considering the role of the nurse in promoting health and preventing ill health.

In your project group you will choose a specific population and explore the data. You will choose a relevant public health issue for the population

You will analysis a relevant intervention and consider the role of the nurse

You will need to consider

- Rationale for chosen topic – why is this a contemporary public health issue?

- Present chosen population data and link to wider determinants and health inequalities for that population (LO1 and LO3)

- Focus on one existing initiative relevant to chosen topic and consider barriers and facilitators to implementation (LO2)

- Analysis of the underpinning theories and models relevant to that approach, population and chosen topic. Consideration of the macro and micro context (LO4)

- The role of the nurse in promoting health and preventing ill health relevant to topic (LO4)