Public Health Report Assignment
Word count : 3000
Tackling obesity in the Peterborough and Cambridgeshire area.
The written assignment for Module 2 is a 3000-word Health Needs Assessment reviewing local, national and world health patterns and wellbeing outcomes. You will choose a locality familiar to you and identify one public health need within this area. You will highlight the implications for healthcare for this public health need. Additionally for your selected health need you will identify and understand the local health services available and the role of the nurse in health promotion delivery.
Public Health Report Assignment
Learning outcomes that the Public Health report covers
* Demonstrate knowledge of epidemiology, demography, genomics and the wider determinants of health, illness and wellbeing and apply this to an understanding of global patterns of health and wellbeing outcomes (Learning Outcome 1)
* Discuss and explain the factors that may lead to inequalities in health outcomes. (Learning Outcome 2)
* Consider how mental, physical, behavioural and other health related outcomes may be improved by understanding and explaining the principles, practice and evidence-base for health screening programmes. (Learning Outcome 4)
* Apply understanding of national and local data related to the health care needs and associated services of a local population. (Learning Outcome 5)
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Outline of Report
Introduction: (200 words)
Briefly highlight what the report is about, the reason for the report, the locality you are discussing and the local public health concern you have chosen to identify specific healthcare services and review the role of the nurse in promoting health in this area.
2 a) Choosing a locality: (100 words) Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Choose one area or locality.
- The local area you study in this area should be:
- Somewhere that interests you and/or which you are familiar with (placement area or local home area)
- One which you can use published data to inform a discussion about social and health care needs in that area.
- Detail your choice of area
- NB: It would be better to pick a county as your locality because you are more likely to get reliable data (If data collection is not at 90% of the population it will not be recorded in the figures and merely be left blank).
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2b) Health and social care data
Finding Statistics and Information:
- Gather insight data on ONE prevalent public health need.
- This data should be gathered from local joint strategic needs assessments (JSNA) around the health of your chosen population, in your chosen community and in relation to your field of nursing e.g., Childhood obesity rates if you are a child nurse, rates of mental ill health like depression or suicide if you are a mental health nurse, or rates of cancer, smoking or long term conditions if you are an adult nurse.
- Utilise information from reputable source using Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Local Authority Health Profiles Links to an external site.
- Other sites that will support the data in your assignment could include NHS digital Links to an external site., Office of National statistics Links to an external site. , and NHS England Data Catalogue. Links to an external site.
- Identify one key health and social care issue in your chosen locality by reviewing the epidemiology and prevalence of this data, e.g., immunisation rates if you are a child nurse, rates of self-harm if you are a mental health nurse, or rates of cancer or cardiovascular disease if you are an adult nurse.
Demonstrate The Statistics (100 words)
- Demonstrate this data in tables, graphs or pie chart and in a brief written summary.
- Identify your sources
Discuss The Statistics: (400 words)
- Discuss what the data suggests about public health care need in that area and the implications for health care. Support this information with key research that may validate your findings.
- Within your discussion compare your findings to national and worldwide figures. What implications can you draw from this?
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3. Determinants, inequalities and barriers to health (800 words)
- Identify the determinants, inequalities and barriers to health.
- Within your locality, identify the environmental, societal, and social determinants of health (like poverty, education, culture, economy, geography, and gender) that create health inequalities.
- Health inequalities are unfair avoidable differences between groups of people. Look at the differences in the status of people’s health such as the life expectancy, access to care, behavioural risk factors from the data. E.g., It may be that this particular county that has higher suicide rates than the rest of the UK, find out why this might be the case.
- You can use publications such as the Kings FundLinks to an external site., NHS EnglandLinks to an external site., Public Health England outcomes frameworkLinks to an external site., HealthKnowledge. OrgLinks to an external site., Naidoo and Wills Foundations for Health Promotion Book (chapter 2 and 3)Links to an external site.or any other health promotion text book to help develop your discussion.
- Try to really understand the determinants that have impacted to create this health inequality causing a health need in this area.
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4a) Review of current service provision (400 words)
- Identify local, national policy, services, charities available for your public health concern.
- For example, if you have chosen rising teenage depression the services might include GP, CPFT, counselling, NHS therapy, CBT, MIND, Lifecraft, Samaritans
- Highlight briefly what these services provide and what the local / national guidance recommends, e.g., Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT), National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) (previously Public Health England (PHE)), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
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4b) Role of the nurse in health promotion and screening (500 words)
Highlight what nurses do in identifying the health issue and any screening if applicable for the public health need you have identified, e.g., practice nurses and the use of screening tools to identify depression.
Once the health concern is identified look at what the nurse does to make every contact count and to empower the patient to make healthy choices e.g., discussing a change model and apply to the patient who is contemplating change like the empowerment model.
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What health promotion services does the nurse provide, e.g., for depression trained mental health primary care nurse, face-to-face patient contact, clinical supervision, planning meetings, role development, communication, and dissemination with the rest of the primary health-care team, and preparation of materials for patient use?
5. Conclusion (300 words)
Summarise the findings in your report.
6. Recommendations (200 words)
- Reference style: Cite Them Right Harvard 12th Edition (no.et.al), reference after every 100 word.