HC70025W Public Health Health Systems (PHHS) Formative and Summative Assessment Guidance | LBU

Assignment Brief

Public Health Health Systems (PHHS) Assessment: suggested guidance

• Formative assessment 1:

Every few weeks, students will focus on a topic for which they will develop material for their portfolio in class, either individually or in groups with the lecturer's guidance and support, and they will individually refine it at home.

• Summative assessment:

This is a three-part portfolio-based assessment that students would be required to submit to demonstrate their learning. Each portfolio assesses students on different types of knowledge and skills required in public health, and relevant to the learning outcomes. You must complete each portfolio to be able to successfully pass the module.

Suggested Summative Portfolio

HC70025W Learning Outcomes

Your assessments cover the following learning outcomes of the module

• Explain the main principles, theories, ethics, and values underpinning contemporary public health.
• Demonstrate knowledge about ethical and reflective public health practice in the context of disease prevention, health promotion and health protection.
• Critically evaluate the role of different approaches to disease prevention, health promotion and health protection policy in different country contexts.
• Evaluate the historical, cultural, and social context within which public health policy and practice have developed.

Portfolio 1: NHS England- e learning (online ) training.

Instructions

You must register at elfh Programmes
Please complete the online training for

• Public health ethics.
• Population health toolkit and public health intelligence
• Population health management

Interim Deadline: 06.05.2024; 23:45 (Upload certificates on OneDrive in PHHS folder and submission template on Turnitin)

Tips for submission of your certificates

Certificates and How They Should Look and How to Name the Files.

Please create and label your certificates as samples in the consolidation in week 3. This should work on the main learning page and clicking the certificate next to the course name. All details, including the modules completed, must be included as shown below on page 2 onwards; the front certificate alone is not enough.

Portfolio 2: Narrated Digital Story Using the Community Health Profile of a Local Borough in England.

Referenced two-part assessments that demonstrate an understanding of public health concepts and applications in policy and practice – provided in digital format using audio PowerPoint/digital story. The digital story should be of 9-10 narrative slides describing the community health profile and relevant health intervention in the borough of your choice. You can add more slides to explain if you need extra space. The digital story narrative should be between 12-15 minutes maximum. Your digital story must contain original pictures taken by you. Do not use any Google images or other images in the print or paper.

Part A: Identifying and analysing community health profile.

Select one borough and download the short and long profiles from the websites as demonstrated in class. You must save them as PDF files and upload them to OneDrive in your dedicated PHHS folder. (You can use any borough except Hounslow.)

Part B: Developing and narrating a digital story.

Please upload your digital story (narrated PPT) on OneDrive in your dedicated PHHS folder along with long and short profiles of the chosen borough.

Following are the instructions for developing a digital story PPT.

Slide 1: Introduction- what you want to do in your digital story
Slide 2: Describe what a community health profile and community health needs is, and which borough you will focus on
Slide 3- critically analyse the community health needs using two or three indicators for demographics and determinants for the chosen borough. (Take screenshots or graph pics from long or short profiles to describe these.)
Slide 4: Critically analyse the community health needs using two or three indicators for deprivation and health status for the chosen borough. (Take screenshots or graph pics from long or short profiles to describe these.)
Slide 5: Describe what one key community health issue/need or public health topic in your borough you will focus on- for example, air pollution or childhood obesity or cervical cancer. Explain why this is an important issue using epidemiological data from the health profiles, or JSNA report or the ONS data. (Take screenshot or graph pics from long or short profile or JSNA report, or ONS website)
Slide 6. Explain the associated risk factors/determinants of health related to the issue under consideration. (Must take original pictures)
Slide 7: Describe a relevant intervention started by the local government to address the issue. (You must use original pictures to describe the intervention.)
Slide 8: Relate the intervention to a specific health promotion theory/ model/approach; explaining how the intervention reflects different elements of theory/model/approach (This must be either a using a diagram or a picture)
Slide 9: Conclusion summarising your overall evaluation of the borough’s health profile and policy/strategy response on the chosen issue.
Slide 10: References.

Interim Deadline: 25.06.2024; 23:45 (Submit long and short profiles, and digital story on one drive PHHS folder and submission template on Turnitin)

Further tips on developing Portfolio Two

Choose any borough in England except those in London and download short and long profiles from the websites below. ( See health profiles ppt on Blackboard)

• Local Health - Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (long profile part one and two)
• Local Authority Health Profiles - OHID (phe.org.uk) (short profile)
• Microsoft Power BI (deprivation index)

Upload the long profile and short profiles on OneDrive in the dedicated folder.

Critically identify and analyse the indicators in the four categories- demographics, determinants, deprivation and health status. Look at red indicators in each category and choose the most important ones to describe the community health profile and needs.

You can also find and use the related Joint Needs Assessment (JSNA) report of the chosen borough/council to explore further. You can also refer to the ONS website.

Finalise one public health key issue that you wish to discuss and develop your digital story on. This should be based on the indicators that you have analysed above, or the local JSNA report and ONS data. Use original pictures to describe the issue. No Google images can be used.

Find the relevant intervention developed and implemented by the council. You are not suggesting but describing an already existing intervention. Use original pictures to describe the issue. No Google images can be used.

Link the intervention to the health promotion theories/approaches or models. You can use one or more.

Do the conclusion and references slides.

Portfolio 3: SWOT analysis of a healthcare system of a country [1200 words excluding references]

Describe the chosen country’s health (care) system- structure, processes, and type of model it is. (200 words).

Critically analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the health system, focusing on six building blocks of the health system as described by WHO, using the indicators described for each building block. Do not repeat same indicators for SWOT. You must use government sources, not academic or general grey literature for data. Divide into the following: (800 words in total)

• Strength- 200 words, weakness- 200 words, opportunities- 200 words and threat- 200 words. (Tip- You should demonstrate how strength is different from opportunity and weaknesses from threats. You do not need to cover every building block, but you should try to cover 2 or 3. Do not create a table.

You should conclude by describing about the implementation of UHC in the country and its progress, indicating how UHC has met or unmet the needs of the people based on the indicators you describe in the SWOT analysis. (200 words).

Deadline: 09.07.2024; 23:45 ( Turnitin submission of 1200-word analysis using essay template)

Tips for writing

Format and style

• You should write in the active voice.
• Avoid informal words, colloquial language in writing.
• Avoid contractions (Can’t/don’t is wrong; use can not, do not).
• Explain your abbreviations first before using them. For example, the World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Use British English.
• Do not write in first person. (I think, I read, I believe, etc.)
• Please be careful with your spellings and punctuation marks. Poor grammar is poor writing and results in poor understanding and misleading.
• The writing should be formal and should create a flow through linking sentences.
• Use clear and concise academic language in writing.
• No anecdotal stories.
• Try not to be too descriptive. You need to do a ‘critical analysis’.
• Make sure the format of your essay is Calibri or Arial font, 12. The margins for each page are 2.54 cm (the default in MS Word), and the line spacing is double, and justified (right and left sides of paragraphs are straight, like in a book or published report).

Referencing

• You MUST use the Harvard Referencing system in your assignment
• This should be for both in the body of the essay (citation) and references. Please signpost your references clearly and accurately in the body of the essay.
• Use only academic peer-reviewed published articles, academic books, government websites or reliable international data sets from the UN or other international agencies.
• Avoid grey literature, non-academic articles. For example- Google, blogs, newspapers, online opinions, non-validated data, etc.