PCS-10009 - Perspectives in Health and Disease

Coordinator: Marty Lynch

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Level: Level 4

Credits: 30

Study Hours: 300

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Programme/Approved Electives for 2020/21

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Yes

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2020/21

This 30-credit module introduces students to epidemiology and its application to improve public health. This will include developing and understanding of inequalities in health, and inequity in services and care. There will be an opportunity for specific study relating to developing the health of communities and populations linked to potential future career choices.

Aims

This module will enable students to:
examine the role of epidemiology, public health, inequalities in health, and health and poverty, in the health of individuals and communities
develop an understanding of how health and wellbeing can be positively enabled across a range of settings and circumstances.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Apply epidemiology as a basic science underpinning public health and clinical medicine
: 1,2
Explore the impact of poor physical, mental and psychological health on individuals, families and communities: 1,2
Apply, analyse and interpret health information to improve population health: 1,2
Explain underlying political and economic factors which lead to health and social inequalities: 1,2

Study hours

56 hours face to face teaching - 30 hours lectures, 15 hours group work, 8 hours seminars, 3 hours group debate
4 hour tutorial
240 hours independent study to include time for completion of written assessment and preparation for presentation assessment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 60%
Review of a published research paper
A 2000 word assignment which will review a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal that describes a quantitative research project.

2: Presentation weighted 40%
Public health research
Students will select a paper that describes research on population health. Students will give a 10 minute presentation covering the what the paper presents, critically evaluate the methodology and discuss how it can be applied to public health. This will be followed by 5 minutes of questions from two assessors.

PCS-10009 - Module Specification School of Primary, Community and Social Care Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

PCS-10009 - Module Specification
School of Primary, Community and Social Care
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences