PCS-40032 - Module Specification
School of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

This module focuses on developing your ability to develop approaches (including community action) to improve population health and reduce health inequalities. It will encourage a critical approach to developing approaches and interventions that may target the environment, risk factors (e.g. smoking, alcohol-related violence), non-communicable health conditions (e.g. cardiovascular disease) or target groups (e.g. those living in the most deprived areas). These approaches will consider a range of factors and may employ a multidisciplinary approach; you will develop knowledge and skills to fulfil the public health role within this. The knowledge and skills gained will be useful in a career which links to promoting public health.

The aim is to develop the student's ability to develop opportunities and interventions to promote health in populations and communities.

Intended Learning Outcomes

critically discuss health promotion priorities, strategies and methods used with individuals, groups, partnerships and communities to reduce health inequalities: 1,2
critically evaluate the concept of community action and development with relation to improving public health outcomes: 1
plan, promote and critically appraise a health promotion initiative, which could be a community action-based initiative: 1,2

Study hours

Lectures/workshops 36 hours; these will include practical sessions, lectures, workshops, small group work, case based discussions and critical appraisal sessions on scientific literature.
114 hours of independent self-study broken down as follows:
60 hours - background reading, reviewing given material, private study, preparation for online and in-person activities (this includes the materials provided for asynchronous study)

54 hours – working on assessments.

School Rules

Completion of module Health Promotion - PCS-40026

Description of Module Assessment