Unit name | Evaluation of Public Health Interventions |
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Unit code | BRMSM0006 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Kipping |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit introduces the key concepts and principles of evaluation for public health interventions. It emphasises the importance of understanding complexity when designing study evaluations and that complexity may be a feature of the intervention as well as the context in which it is implemented. Students will be introduced to advanced randomised designs and alternative non-randomised study designs. All teaching and learning is research-led and will draw on the public health intervention expertise within the Department of Population Health Sciences. Learning is situated within the MRC framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions and MRC guidelines for conducting a process evaluation, whilst drawing on recent developments in systems thinking for public health improvement.
On successful completion of the unit students will be able to:
Assess strengths and weaknesses of randomised and non-randomised study designs for evaluation of public health interventions.
Teaching is campus-based over a 10-week teaching block. There is an additional reading week and a revision week.
Weekly, face-to-face contact time will be 2.5 hours and will include campus-based lectures and practicals. Students will be required to undertake directed self-study in preparation for lectures. This may include reading, quizzes, multi-media based learning and completion of assessments (75 hours).
Formative assessments to enable the ongoing learning of students will be built into all sessions and will include approaches such as the use of exercises, quizzes, feedback from discussion and strategic questioning.
The unit is assessed by a 1,500 to 2000-word project. Students will design an evaluation of a public health intervention (100% of unit mark) (ILOS 1-5).
There is no essential course text for this unit.
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Further reading