PUBH6006 Working With Communities Essay: Assessment 1 Answer

ASSESSMENT BRIEF

Subject Code and Title: PUBH6006: Community Health and Disease Prevention

Assessment: Assessment 1: Essay - Working with Communities

Individual/Group: Individual

Length: 2,000 words

Learning Outcomes: This assessment address the following learning outcomes: 1. Analyse the impact of social, environmental and behavioural factors on the health of different populations 2. Analyse population health outcomes and the major social, economic, political and cultural forces that contribute to health inequalities.

Weighting: 35%

Total Marks: 100 marks

Instructions: In this Assignment, you will explore the connection between helping groups and communities to gain empowerment through capacity building and community action. As a current or future public health practitioner, you will continually be called upon to identify the common needs and shared concerns of a community in the management of health programs. Over the next two Modules you will complete a multi-part assignment.

To prepare for this assignment:  Analyse the different levels of community-based interaction in health programs; use Laverack’s (2007, Chapter 2) ladder to help with your thinking on this complex subject.  Analyse the different theories and models of health promotion practice.  Critique the link between capacity building and empowerment.

Write a 2,000-word paper that uses your professional judgement and the evidence provided in the Learning Resources in Modules 1 and 2 to address the following:

Part 1: Identify a preventable health concern in which you are interested, such as dengue fever or type 2 diabetes. Using Laverack’s ladder of community-based interaction as a guide, describe three key strategies that you might use to engage with a community to implement a program to address this health concern (Module 1).

Part 2: Discuss how you could use the core domains of capacity-building identified by Liberato et al (2011) to support the journey to community empowerment and ownership of a prevention program for your chosen health concern (Module 1).

Part 3: Describe the models and approaches of health promotion (such as the health belief model or the education approach) that you would use to motivate and educate the community about your chosen health concern, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each model/approach (Module 2).

Assessment Criteria:  Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the different levels of community-based interaction in community health programs (20%).  Interpret and analyse the different theories and models of health promotion and justify any conclusions reached with well-formed arguments (30%).  Analysis and application of theories and models to an existing community health problem (30%).  General assessment criteria (20%): o Provides a lucid introduction o Shows a sophisticated understanding of the key issues o Shows ability to interpret relevant information and literature in relation to chosen topic o Demonstrates a capacity to explain and apply relevant concepts o Shows evidence of reading beyond the required readings o Justifies any conclusions reached with well-formed arguments and not merely assertions o Provides a conclusion or summary o Correctly uses academic writing, presentation and grammar:  Complies with academic standards of legibility, referencing and bibliographical details (including reference list)  Writes clearly, with accurate spelling and grammar as well as proper sentence and paragraph construction  Uses appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research