PUB008-6/STI016-6 The Public Health Impact of a Specified Health Protection Issue

Unit Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding: A critical understanding of the role of public health protection in protecting populations from infectious diseases and environmental hazards.

Demonstrate the following skills and abilities: Critically evaluate health protection strategies used to manage issues that impact public health and, based on your findings, propose recommendations to prevent or reduce their impact in the future.

What am I Required to Do in this Assignment?

You are required to identify a current or recent (last 20 years maximum) health protection-related issue and critically evaluate its impact on public health within a geographical area of your choice. You are then required to identify and critically evaluate the prevention and control strategies that are/were being used by health authorities to manage the issue. You should then include any of your evidence-based recommendations on how to strengthen and/or improve the protection strategies to reduce its impact on public health in the future.