SH6007QA
Module Title : Effective responses to emerging issues in health & social care
For assessment 2, you are required to submit a 3,000-word essay critically appraising a health and social care policy for its use of health creation approaches to tackle social inequalities in health.
- Introduction (in which you state the essay aim and the areas the essay will address)
- Present an overview of the policy initiative including the health issue & target population as well as the epidemiological data, demographic and socio-economic information of target population (You can either focus on a local authority level or national level (L01 & L02)
- Discuss the perceived needs of the relevant workforce; health inequalities and social determinants of health in relation to health issue & target population (L01 & L02)
- Discuss the concept of health creation and critique the relevant intervention/s (based on the policy initiative identified – intervention/s should have applied any of the following approaches : social prescribing; asset-based psychosocial; community engagement; community development; structural perspectives; – to tackle health inequalities : Has the approach been effective in tackling the health issue as well as the health inequalities? Critically engage with the evidence base and come to a supported judgement regarding effectiveness) (L01, 3, 4, 5)
- Conclusion
In your essay, you would need to provide evidence of the following learning outcomes.
- Critically discuss the emerging issues in contemporary health and social care at both policy and practice levels.
- Demonstrate your knowledge and application of the social determinants of health.
- Explain and discuss typology of initiatives to tackle social inequalities in health.
- Discuss health creation and initiatives to tackle health inequalities from social prescribing, asset-based psychosocial, community engagement and community development, to the structural perspectives
- Critically examine the evidence-based approach to public health decisions