Foundations in Public Health

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The language of public health and how best to communicate with the public.
• How equity can be achieved through the wider determinants of health.
• How commercial influence impacts the health of different populations.
• An understanding of the key issues in public health today and their historical context.
• An understanding of how health services are organised and where public health sits in the system.
• Knowledge of a range of wider determinants and how they affect human health.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Examine the different mechanisms through which the wider determinants affect health and the connections between them.
• Assess the factors contributing to local and global change, considering their causes and the potential impact on health on populations in different areas.
• Critically assess and apply suitable strategies for communicating risks in public health.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply knowledge of how the wider determinants of health affect the equitable distribution of health.
• Construct applications for funding for specific public health programmes.
• Plan programmes for addressing issues relating to the wider determinants of health.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Oral Assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Group assignment including presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.