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Title / Public Health for Nursing or Midwifery Practice
Code / NI501
Level / 5
Credit rating / 20
Pre-requisites / Meets Progression Requirements to Year 2 of the Course
Type of module / Extensive over trimester one
Aims / This module, shared across all fields, aims to develop the student’s understanding of the public health role of all nurses or midwives as appropriate across the scope of fields and settings. It will build on the applied social science content in the first year.
Learning outcomes/objectives / On successful completion of the module the student will be able to:
  1. Understand the range of academic disciplines contributing to public health, define core concepts, and apply them to the practice of nursing or midwifery, as appropriate, across all fields.
  1. Identify and use appropriate literature and data from a number of sources to explore health inequalities and examine the effects of these on individuals and populations.
  1. Understand and analyse a range of models of health promotion spanning biomedical to salutogenic approaches, and apply this to physical and mental health across the lifespan.
  1. Analyse the concept of collaborative working, and examine its application to working with contemporary public health issues from local to global level.

Content / Contemporary Social /Health Policy (Link with old and ‘new’ public health)
Health Protection
Health Promotion across individual to population continuum
Health Literacy
Epidemiology
Immunology
Concepts of health / User perspectives on health
Inequalities in health / determinants of health/ vulnerability
Health needs assessment including community development
Promoting collaborative working
Power issues, including ethical aspects and frameworks for analysing issues of coercion and empowerment
User involvement.
Public health at a micro and macro level
Links will be made to relevant anatomy and physiology e.g Immunology using sexual health and HPV as example. Pharmacology links with obesity. Breast feeding links with immunology and health outcomes for mother and child.
Contemporary topic areas will be used as a basis for learning allowing students to look at aspects of the topic that are relevant to their field and enabling them to consider collaborative working across fields and disciplines. E.g.
  • Substance mis-use
  • Obesity (Can also link with medication / pharmacology/ links with diabetes)
  • Nutrition (Obesity/ Breast feeding/ Malnutrition/ nutrition related conditions e.g osteoporosis, cancer, diabetes)
  • Sexual health (Teenage pregnancy/ STI’s including HIV/ Contraception/ Vulnerability e.g. Learning disability, Domestic violence, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation )
  • Self-harm

Teaching and learning strategies / Key note lectures to provide underpinning theory and topic based facilitated sessions to demonstrate application of theoretical concepts to public health practice in all fields of nursing or midwifery as appropriate.
Structured guided study enabling small groups of students to follow up on taught sessions with application to practice in preparation for facilitated sessions.
Wiki or blog to encourage sharing of material and web-links identified through literature and web searching.
Independent study
Activity / Hours / %
Scheduled / 28 / 14
Independent Study / 172 / 86
Practice / 0 / 0
Total / 200 / 100
Learning support / Use of Powerpoint, for website planning.
Indicative reading:
Green, J. and K. Tones. 2010. Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies 2nded London: Sage Publications
Hubley, J. and J. Copeman. 2008. Practical Health Promotion 2008 Australia: Polity/Wiley
Naidoo, J. and J. Wills. 2008. Health Studies: an introduction 2nd ed Basingstoke:, Palgrave Macmillan
Rearle. S, Lloyd. C. E. and S. Spurr. 2007Theory and Research in promoting public health London: Sage Publications
Seedhouse, D. 2009. Ethics the Heart of Health Care. 3rd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Wilson, F. and M. Mzwandile. 2009 Key Concepts in Public Health London: Sage
Websites;



Journals:
Public Health
Journal of Public Health
European Journal of Public Health
Global Health Promotion
Assessment tasks / Plan part of a health promotion website for the general public in response to an identified health need.
This will include content for three web pages:
  1. Information about the health problem. This should indicate why it is a public health issue, ie scope of problem and impact on population.
  2. Plan for behaviour / lifestyle change to help to alleviate the issue. This should link with one model / approach to health promotion.
  3. A useful links page identifying relevant policy, practice and research links.
3,000 words in total made up of approximately 1000-1300 words on each of pages 1 and 2, and 4-700 words for page 3.
Content should be written in language appropriate for the general public, and referenced so that they can follow through on the information and advice given. Assessment guidelines for Level 5 academic work will be applied.
Weighting: 100%
Brief description of module content and/or aims (maximum 80 words) / The module aims to give students an understanding of the relevance of public health across healthcare and the lifespan and help them to see that they have a role in different approaches to health promotion focussing on promoting wellbeing as well as preventing mental and physical ill health. It will highlight that engagement with health promotion can enable them to have an impact at community and population level.
The module will provide a sound basis for students who wish to examine public health in more depth through their dissertation; or who wish to specialise in public health on qualification.
Area examination board to which module relates / BSc (Hons) Nursing
Module team/authors/coordinator / Carol Williams Pippa Hillen, Rosemary Gaudoin, Maggie Stewart, Bill McGowan, Nigel Green, Kris Fernandes, Catherine Theodosius and Jenny Hassall
Trimester offered, where appropriate / Year 2, Trimester 1
Site where delivered / Brighton and Eastbourne/Hastings
Date of first approval / 6th April 2011
Date of last revision / Not applicable
Date of approval of this version / 16th May 2012
Version number / 2
Replacement for previous module / Not applicable
Field for which module is acceptable and status in that field / Nursing - Adult, child, and mental health fields
Shared, mandatory module
Midwifery – Mandatory
Course(s) for which module is acceptable and status in that course / BSc (Hons) Nursing – adult, mental health, child health
Mandatory
BSc (Hons) Midwifery – 3 year Mandatory
School home / School of Nursing and Midwifery
External examiner / ChrysiLeliopoulou September 11 – September 2015