Health Promotion Assignment -

Learning Outcomes -

• Understand the socioeconomic influences on health.
• Understand models of health promotion.
• Understand factors which influence health promotion.
• Be able to plan a health promotion campaign.

INSTRUCTIONS - Read the following carefully and proceed to do the tasks in your assessment. The instructions below apply to all parts of the assignment.

1. You must have read extensively, using diverse sources of information.

2. For each source of information you use in doing this assignment, ensure that you give the source of your information by giving a reference in the text of your assignment, followed by a list of the references you use at the very end of the body of your text. You should use the appropriate referencing system-Harvard referencing system.

3. You should cover all the topics in the assessment requirements below, When doing your presentation, poster and writing your answers.

Background Information -

The aim of this assignment is to provide learners with the knowledge and understanding of pertinent issues and factors, which prevent some individuals from accessing health support. You will investigate a range of influences on health and reasons for the varied success of health promotion campaigns and strategies. Moreover, this assignment also requires you to develop your understanding to the role of national and regional strategies and professionals. You will need to develop your understanding around the theories of Health Behaviour, models used in Health Promotion, and government strategies to improve the health of individuals in society. You will have to develop your knowledge and understanding around potential conflicts between local industry, and health promotion campaigns are for example, anti-smoking campaigns and parents employed within the tobacco industry. Your competency level will be assessed on planning a Health Promotion Campaign for a target audience of yours.

Task 1- Essay

You need to write an essay of approximately 1000 words. The essay needs to be based on baseline information that you have gathered about your local community in order to identify needs, socio-economic factors influencing health, inequalities, and barriers to accessing health as discussed above.

To achieve each outcome a learner must demonstrate the ability to:

1.1 Explain the effects of socioeconomic influences on health.

1.2 Assess the relevance of government sources in reporting on inequalities in health.

1.3 Discuss reasons for barriers to accessing Healthcare

Task 2- Essay

Having been recently employed by a G.P practice in the role of a smoking cessation officer. Your task is to reduce the number of patients registered at the practice who smoke. Using knowledge from the lectures and your reading say why this is an important target for the practice and which model (approach) would you use to help smokers quit. Explain what your role would be in this intervention relating to the health model and discuss how you could help the patients to become long term non-smokers. Your essay for this section should not be more than 1,200 words long.

Assessment requirements - To achieve each outcome a learner must demonstrate the ability to:

2.1 Analyse the links between government strategies and models of health promotion

2.2 Explain the role of professionals in meeting government targets for health promotion

2.3 Discuss the role of routines in promoting healthy living

Task 3 - Essay

From the following health promotion topics, breastfeeding, tackling Obesity, stopping smoking, increasing regular exercise etc. write an essay covering any subject of your interest. Secondly, produce a health promotion campaign poster, which is appropriate for your target audience. Your essay should not be more than 1,300 words relating to your health promotion topic.

3.1 Explain how health beliefs relate to theories of health behaviour.

3.2 Discuss the possible effects of potential conflicts with local industry on health promotion.

3.3 Explain the importance of providing relevant health related information to the public.

4.1 Plan a health promotion campaign to meet specific objectives.

4.2 Explain how the health promotion campaign supports health promotion strategies.