Module overview
This module consists of student selected components in public health. These aim to offer student choice and to develop students' professional knowledge, skills, and values and behaviour through reflective practice. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Identify features of effective academic poster design
- Develop a critical understanding of how health, illness and disability are experienced in the community
- Critically engage with public health data, policy and practice
- Demonstrate knowledge of a local health issue
- Identify the social determinants of health and health inequalities
- Produce an academic poster which includes an interactive component, and logic model
Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Participate in peer review - give and receive feedback
- Demonstrate an awareness of how health behaviours are affected by the diversity of the patient population
- Practise reflection
- Demonstrate a wider perspective on health that includes the role of doctors in health improvement, addressing the social determinants of health and health inequalities
- Work effectively in a team
- Take responsibility for your own learning and personal and professional development
- Recognise the rights and the equal value of all people
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Develop effective oral and poster presentation skills
- Access public health information sources and use the information in relation to health improvement
- Communicate effectively and negotiate with peers
- Gather relevant information from reliable sources and present it clearly and appropriately, verbally or in writing
Syllabus
The Health Improvement module offers choice of a health improvement area to focus on through a student selected component.
Students work in groups to design a health improvement intervention for use with a particular target group in a healthcare setting such as a GP surgery or hospital, or a community setting such as a school or charity. Students choose a local health topic; select a target group and setting; research the background and evidence for the topic; identify the issues involved; create ways of intervening that will address the issues and produce an academic poster that demonstrates the work. Students also evaluate the intervention & reflect upon their performance and the team work.
In order to meet the learning outcomes, the syllabus will contain teaching in the following areas:
-Public Health
-Health Improvement
-Communication
-Team Working & Leadership
-Sociology
-Psychology
- Research methods
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies using face to face which will include:
-Lectures
-Plenary skills sessions
-Seminars
-Facilitator-led tutorials
-Workshops
-Self–directed learning
-Projects
-Group work
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Completion of assessment task | 20 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 20 |
| Lecture | 5 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
| Wider reading or practice | 35 |
| Total study time | 100 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Please see the Blackboard module page for current resources and the full reading list for this module is available on the Library Online Reading List at http://soton.rl.talis.com/.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
All elements below must be passed for successful completion of the module. Compensation is not allowed between the elements. Students may fail an assessment if unsatisfactory attendance or performance means that they cannot achieve all of the learning outcomes because there is not enough time during the module to complete the necessary work.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Group Poster Presentation | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal