Foundations in Public Health

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Assess the factors contributing to local and global change, considering their causes and the potential impact on health on populations in different areas.
• Examine the different mechanisms through which the wider determinants affect health and the connections between them.
• 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:

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

• The context for current public health policy and practice
• Threats to health and how to describe their effect on populations
• Wider determinants of health
• How global changes impact health
• Commercial determinants of health
• How to communicate the wider determinants of health.

Teaching and learning methods

A range of methods will be used including lectures, tutorials, active participatory methods including learning groups, workshops, and student presentations; e-learning/ interactive tools, guided reading, group study and individual study. Formative feedback will be provided throughout the module's group work and workshops.

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:
• Group Work: No

Group assignment including presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment:
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

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