Improving Population Health: Theory to Action

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically assess the application of interventions and underpinning theory to population health issues, within the context of a whole system approach.
• Critically evaluate contemporary theories and models in policy and programme development.
• Critically examine the influences and constraints to effective implementation of complex public health programmes across the system.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• The principles and action areas of the WHO Ottawa Charter and its application and evaluation as a whole system approach to population health issues
• The complexity of the policy and health improvement context and be able to explain how policy is made and public health issues are identified.
• The major public health policies and other intervention strategies relevant to your own area of work and how to articulate the organisations responsible for them and wide range of partners to engage when working to address public health issues.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop, plan, implement and evaluate programmes/ projects related to public health.
• Demonstrate academic and public health focused written and verbal communication skills and demonstrate communication skills to a wide range of stakeholders, interpreting and presenting data from a range of sources.

Building healthy public policy; creating supportive environments; strengthening community action; developing personal skills; reorienting health services; a whole systems approach

Teaching and learning methods

Independent study (240 hours)

Teaching 60 hours – 10 weeks of 6 hours using a range of methods including lectures and active participatory methods including workshops, student presentations, group work, debate and role play

Students will focus on a vulnerable population (building from Foundations of Public Health course) and consider the module theories and approaches through the lens of that vulnerable population, advocating for that population in class discussions and activities

Students will consider different topical public health issues throughout the module, to apply the module theories and approaches

Formative

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

Policy Brief or Critical Assessment

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

Individual Presentation

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

Summative

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