Faculty of Health

This module will introduce those who are working or planning to work in the field of public health to the tools of population health assessment, theoretical frameworks for understanding how public health and social policy are developed, implemented and evaluated. It will also provide a basis for understanding the relationships between individual circumstances and their social context.

This module is available as:

• a compulsory core within PGDip/MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
• a programme/ approved elective within MSc Advancing Professional Practice
• a free standing elective

To enable students to:
- develop their knowledge of key public health indicators, public health policy and community based interventions. - gain insight into evidence about improving health and reducing health inequalities.
- introduce tools for holistic assessment of health and social needs within the wider determinants of health

For those undertaking the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Programme, specific award entry requirements apply; no other pre-requisites are required.
For those undertaking as an elective/freestanding module; healthcare practitioner with a minimum of 6 months experience and working within a relevant health care setting.

Public Health Policy
Social Policy frameworks
Health Needs Assessment
Commissioning process
Principles and practice of health promotion
National / Local Health Initiatives
Principles of surveillance at population level
Principles and application of screening programmes
Understanding and making sense of public health data , sources of international, national, local data
Policy and practice frameworks for Safeguarding children and other vulnerable people.
Public health and other strategies to prevent, identify and minimise the impact of abuse and violence in families and other settings.
Cycle of Change