The assessment requires you to plan, develop and evaluate a public health promotion project / intervention. This module is assessed on a 15-minute oral presentation

5HW087 - Health Promotion: Policy & Practice

Learning outcomes

LO1:Apply key approaches in Health Promotion Practice.

LO2:  Assess how the social determinants of health can be applied to a selected health issue.

LO3:  Discuss how health promotion approaches are used in public health policy. 

Assessment Instructions

The assessment requires you to plan, develop and evaluate a public health promotion project / intervention. This module is assessed on a 15-minute oral presentation. You may choose to present on one of the following public health topics: Cancer, sleep disorder, substance misuse, mental health, alcohol abuse, knife crime, sexual health issue. Alternatively, you may choose your own topic.

You are required to plan and implement a public health campaign intervention on the university’s campus. You will distribute campaign materials gotten from charity organisations based on your selected topic. You will be required to contact minimum of 10 people to discuss health promotion campaign with them about the selected health issue. The awareness campaign will take place in week 11 of the semester (2nd April 2025). The campaign session will take place within the class hours with lecturers on-ground to coordinate and support the awareness campaign.

YOUR TOPIC MUST BE A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE AND MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE MODULE. This includes ensuring:

  • There is robust epidemiology data available.
  • Implementation of promotion awareness campaign activities based on selected topic
  • There is sufficient literature evidence review (studies, journal articles and research).
  • Robust evaluation of campaign and recommendation presented. 

If you choose your own public health topic, YOU MUST GAIN APPROVAL FROM THE MODULE LEADER AND GET CAMPAIGN MATERIALS FROM RELATED CHARITY ORGANISATION WHICH MUST BE PRESENTED BY WEEK 8.

  • Your presentation should discuss the planning and delivery of the health promotion, intervention and/ or event in relation to your topic. 
  • You are required to develop a ten slides presentation, using Microsoft PowerPoint based on the campaign outcome.
  • Your presentation should be a maximum of ten slides, excluding the title page and references.
  • Your presentation must include recorded video on each slide. Use of presentation notes section is strongly recommended, but not compulsory.
  • Be consistent in your use of fonts, font size and type for headings, sub-heading and other contents. 

Health Promotion Project Title:

 

 

  

Slide No

Slide Title / Summary of Content

 

Time Allocated

Not included in the slide count

Title page

 

Not included in the slide count

Outline page

List out the topics discussed

 

 

1

Introduction (mandatory slide) 

Points to consider:

  • Self-introduction (Should not be on the slide)
  • What is health promotion? 
  • What is your health promotion project?
  • Why have you chosen this?
  • Summarise how you will do it?
  • What outcomes will your project achieve?

 

 

1 min

2

Health Concern 

Points to consider:

  • Key health inequalities statistics and population group needs
  • Key evidence findings
  • What are the needs of your target group and/or individuals? (use evidence)

 

1 min

3

Aim and Rationale

  • Outline what your project will do? Key aims.
  • Why do you think this intervention will be suitable (Remember to support with evidence)

 

Hint

You should ensure to base your intervention on evidence. For example, diabetes as health issue, you can select one contributing factor such as healthy meals. You can design the intervention on healthy meal to address managing diabetes. Then be sure to support with evidence that healthy meal can improve diabetes. You can use physical activity as well but with evidence

1 min

4

Explain social determinants of health

Points to consider

  • Describe the social determinant model chosen (Chose from the 4 provided in class, see week 2)
  • Using three of the social determining factors, explain impact on the selected health issue

2 min

5

Approaches

  • Present overview of What are approaches in public health
  • Which approach is your intervention is based on (Should be education approach for everyone)
  • Why have you selected the approach (Provide advantages of education approach)

2 min

6

Interventions

This should cover the campaign materials used and your campaign discussions with at least 10 people on the university campus. Ensure to ask people what they think of the intervention using qualitative/quantitative data collection (see template provided).

Points to consider:                                                                       

  • What activities is your project?
  • How have you delivered it (Pamphlet, poster)
  • What key message was your campaign based on
  • Think about what activities you did and what you did stage of implementing your campaign.

 

2 min

7

Evaluation (see template provided for qualitative and quantitative data collection for evaluation) 

Points to consider:

  • Which method did you use to collect your data
  • How many males, females
  • How did you analyse the data
  • What is the result of the analysis
  • How will you use this to inform your next intervention

2 min

8

Policy

Points to consider:

  • Identify a policy addressing the health issue
  • What are the key targets of the policy
  • How is your intervention meeting any of the targets

2

9

Recommendations

Points to consider:

  • How can the intervention be improved
  • How can the health issue be improved

 

Hint

Remember you can recommend intervention and health issue improvement based on the findings of the evaluation

1 min

10

Conclusion (mandatory slide)

Points to consider: 

  • Do not introduce new information.
  • Summarise key point(s) from each slide.
  • Reiterate the significance of your health promotion project. 
  • Reiterate what you did and how?
  • What did you find from the evaluation?
  • What public health outcomes has your health promotion project addressed?

 

1 min

Not included in the slide count

References (mandatory slide)

You must:

 

Not Applicable

         

SUBMISSION DATEWednesday 7th May 2025

All assignments need to be uploaded onto CANVAS. For those with a week’s extension the submission date is the 14th May. 

RESUBMISSION ARRANGEMENTS:   Tuesday 9th July 2025

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