Development and Implementation of Public Health Policies and Strategies

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The terminology and be able to explain how policies and strategies affect public health.
• The complexity of the policy context and be able to explain how policy is made and public health issues are identified.
• The theories and models of programme/project management and their application.
• The systematic rationale for an evidence-based approach to identifying and solving public health problems at the local, national, regional and international level.
• The major public health policies relevant to your own area of work and how to articulate the organisations responsible for them.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop, plan and evaluate programmes/ projects related to public health.
• Use relevant programme/project management tools such as Gantt charts.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically assess and apply the appropriate steps in planning public health programmes/projects.
• Assess and provide information or feedback on how policies and programmes have helped or hindered people’s health and wellbeing.
• Contribute to the development of specific policies and programmes within public health.
• Critically evaluate contemporary theories in policy and programme development.
• Critically examine the constraints to effective implementation of public health programmes in the community.

• Current key health and wellbeing policies in own area of work at UK and international levels
• Role of Agencies: International (UN) and national, NGOs, charities etc
• Policy and programme development
• Programme/project planning, management and risk assessment
• Policy and programme evaluation

Teaching and learning strategies will include formal lectures, workshops, case studies and active participation learning. The emphasis will be on student centred learning in which you will be supported by a wide range of resources often delivered electronically. Staff, tutors and colleagues will support your professional learning. Most teaching will be face-to-face and a few lectures may be delivered online.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Policy Review

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Verbal
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Seminar presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Verbal
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.