Assessment: Health Promotion Proposal

Aim of assessment

This assessment aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to develop and plan a health promotion initiative for a group or groups within their local community.

The assessment is designed to meet unit learning outcomes 3, 4, 5 and 6. In completing the assignment, students will be able to collaborate and liaise with colleagues from other disciplines while preparing and researching for the assignment (LO 3). Students will undertake a needs analysis, plan objectives, present a plan of implementation and an evaluation strategy for their chosen initiative (LO 4), as well as applying their strategies for health promotion to clinical and community areas (LO 5) and creating a health promotion proposal (LO 6).

Task:

Develop a proposal for a health promotion project relevant to your local government population or the community area where you are currently living. This proposal should address an identified need and reflect the current health promotion strategies and frameworks.

The proposed project is to be submitted in a 'report' format of your own choice and broadly should include main and sub-headings as well as appropriate appendices.

The proposal should:

i. Identify the health issue(s) requiring change applicable to your local government and/or community area (with a strong rationale for the need).

ii Identify the proposed objectives for the health promotion project and describe the strategies the project will use to address the objectives (both short and long-term),

iii Provide a plan for the implementation of the project (an action plan or a teaching plan for a part of the program or both). Include the resources required to implement the project. Please note: you do not have to include a budget for your project but you must at least consider the need (or absence of a need) for funding as one issue in the formation of your proposal, and account for this in some way in your action plan and/or supporting discussion.

iv Develop and discuss a proposed evaluation plan for your health promotion project supported by the literature.

v Use evidence from the literature to back up the development, implementation and evaluation of the proposal,

vi Include a reference list of any resource material you use. For example, if you adapt or use another program's (published) evaluation format and adjusted it to suit your own program, you must clearly acknowledge the full reference details of the original source.

vii Include as appendices to your submission the following documents:

A proposed teaching plan (1-2 pages. Table format may be used) as part of your plan for implementation which you will discuss in the body of your work.

One example of an evaluation strategy or an evaluation process (survey) suitable for the project.

- Any additional support material in the form of a resource package. Such information, included in an appendix must include any One or more of the following: (i) a developed pamphlet and/or (ii) a recruitment poster and/or iii) a PowerPoint presentation in electronic format. Ideally the proposal and resource package should be able to be implemented into practice at the conclusion of your submission.

- Students who would like to include an example budget for their proposal are more than welcome to include this as an appendix. This is optional but would contribute to the quality of your resource material (criteria 3). Budget plans or frameworks do not need to involve only financial funding. Proposals can also include alternatives such as non-financial rewards or 'in kind' compensation for volunteer workforce participation, provisions for free transport to or from activities, donation provisions, or, any other fund-raising activities.

Student instructions:
- Attachments for Assessment 2 (Health Promotion Proposal)

(1) If possible, students are encouraged to scan and paste in their attachments to a word document immediately following the Reference List for the proposal and submit electronically in one
document.

(ii) Provisions will be made, however, for students to email tutors any attachments for this assessment which are too large to be attached to the electronic submission (for example, a PowerPoint presentation with audio). These instructions will be placed on the vUWS site and emailed to students prior to submission.

(iii) Students can attach some documents to the end of their report and email others to tutors if formatting requirements make scanning into a word document inappropriate (for example, if an electronic poster presentation is in a single page pdf form)

- You are expected to write in an academic style even though this is a report (Health Promotion Proposal). This means that you are expected to use formal language and scientific terms and expressions where appropriate. But you can also use tables, headings, point form and objective formats when you wish. The use of a Table of Contents in your report is optional.

- You are expected to read widely, and include your reading in your proposal. You must, however, acknowledge the source of all your information within your proposal (in-text referencing) and in a Reference List at the end of your proposal. Use a minimum of eight recent academic references (published not earlier than 2012). If you wish to include work dated prior to 2012 because it is seminal work or particularly relevant to your topic area, please make sure you include at least 8 other references which have been published after 2012, to meet these requirements and to show that you have accessed recently published material.

For accurate referencing, references must be: in the APA style, adequately and correctly cited, both in text and in the final reference list