Unit name | Public Health in Practice |
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Unit code | BRMSM0004 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Kyla Thomas |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit provides students with the skills, techniques and context to practice public health, across the three domains of public health (health protection, health improvement, and healthcare public health). The unit will cover health needs assessment, methods to assess the impact of a plan on population health, communicating public health issues to the public, improving health within a political context including the use of advocacy, partnership working, and development of public health policies and strategies. Throughout the unit ethical principles of public health will be considered in the context of public health practice. The unit enables students to explore these issues in relation to key public health issues (whole system health and social care planning, sustainability, digitalisation, globalisation, and new developments).
The student should be able to:
The module will be taught at the University of Bristol over one teaching block.
There will be 25 contact hours split between lectures (10 hours) and seminars (15 hours).
Non-contact hours will comprise tutor-directed and self-directed study including reading, accessing web-based supplementary materials, critical analysis and completion of assessments (75 hours).
Formative assessments will support learning of students by using exercises, quizzes, feedback following group discussions and writing a press release.
Summative assessment of the unit will be through a 1-hour closed-book, written exam (short answers) which will require the student to demonstrate skills and knowledge developed across the unit (contributing 60% of final unit mark) (ILOs 2-7). Students will also complete a short project designing a health needs assessment to inform the development of a policy or strategy to improve population health (40% of final unit mark) (ILO 1).
An overall score of 50% will be required to pass the module.
Reading and References*
There is no set course text for this unit.
Recommended reading: