Health Promotion
Purpose of this assignment
The following tasks have been designed to guide your work and provide you with opportunities to provide evidence that demonstrates your understanding of socio-economic influences on the health of individuals. Each task is different but will Task 1 to 3 will use the same scenario that you need to read carefully. Task 4 will be a group presentation where you will be designing a Health Promotion Campaign, but note that the allocation of marks will be according to individual performance in the group. It is important to place your work in the context of health and social care practice therefore examples will be required to support your discussion linked with appropriate theory. The work you present for assessment must be your own and all sources of information used need to be cited in the text and in a reference list using the Harvard Referencing System
Scenario
As a Health Improvement Specialist working in Gants Hill, you would have an understanding of what influences the health of the individuals within your community. You have recently come across a case in which the two people involved in the case study could have benefited from an early intervention from health professionals, teachers, their parents and the community. You will attend a conference later this year and will highlight some of the issues that got both Jane and Peter to their current state.
This case study will examine the lives of a 16-year-old girl named Jane and her 17-year-old partner name Peter. They are both smokers and drinkers. Recently they found out that Jane is three months pregnant. This will be a reflection on a real life situation from health and social care practice, so all names and information that could identify the clients, will be changed in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines to protect patient confidentiality (2004).
Jane and Peter both left school at age 15; they both live in council flats with their parents in Redbridge. Jane lives with her mother and Peter lives with both his parents who have a history of substance abuse. Jane currently works 16 hours a week in a supermarket and Peter is currently unemployed. Your report must focus on the issue of either 1) smoking during pregnancy or 2) drinking during pregnancy, in terms of its epidemiology. Please choose either smoking or drinking but not both.
The main focus of your discussions throughout the assignment must be on Health Promotion and should relate to the case study of Jane and Peter. Certain models and approaches should be addressed to see what could be useful when trying to promote someone like Jane and Peter to make a lifestyle change to benefit their own, and in this case, the health of their unborn child.
You will also then look at Government initiatives, policies and strategies surrounding this case scenario, and any ethical issues that arise from this situation and discuss this in relation to Jane and Peter.
As you will attend a conference later this year, use the above case study to write a report with 3 sections (according to Tasks below) to highlight some of the issues that got both Jane and Peter into their current state and the possible support available to them.
Task 1 (1.1 1.2 1.3 and M1, D1)
Task 1: LO1 Understand the socioeconomic influences on health
What you must do
Write the first section of your report using the case scenario; you must include the following into your report and discussion to demonstrate an understanding of the effect socio-economic circumstance can have on health.
• explain the effects of socio-economic influences on Jane and Peter’s health and their unborn child (1.1)
• assess the relevance of government resources such as reports/research on inequalities in health in relation to the case study (1.2).
• discuss the reason and any possible barriers to Jane and Peter accessing health care (1.3).
To achieve M1 an effective approach to study has been applied when explaining the effects of socio-economic influences on Jane and Peter health and their unborn child.
To achieve D1 conclusions have been arrived at through synthesis of ideas and have been justified when assessing the relevance of government resources such as reports/research on inequalities in health in relation to the case study. You will relate the governmental reports to the case study.
What you must do
Presentation Guidelines
TASK 4 will be a 15 minute INDIVIDUAL Presentation
What you must do to achieve Task 4
Each LEARNER will be allocated a target area from any of the following 4 (four) health promotion areas below:
1. School Health promotion
2. Workplace Health promotion
3. Community-based Health promotion in health care settings
4. Rural Health promotion.
You will plan a health promotion campaign that is allocated to the health promotion area above that you choose (i.e. obesity, smoking, alcohol, air pollution, teenage pregnancy, HPV, cervical cancer etc.) for East London local authority imagining that you are in charge of. Each learner will then research their allocated topic and may prepare a power presentation and guided poster if necessary.
In your power point presentation you need to address the following to show a full understanding of L04
This will also be used as the Marking criteria.
1.The target group and their characteristics.
2. Needs of the target group regarding your health promotion campaign.
3. Goals of health promotion.
4. Specific objectives for activity.
5. The resources that will be needed for your health promotion campaign
6. Content, method of activity.
7. How your health promotion campaign will be evaluated.
8. Reflect on how your health promotion campaign supports health promotion strategies.
9. Conclude on your presentation.
Submission Guidelines:
Preferred writing styles Calibri, Arial, Verdana, and Times New Roman
Line spacing 1.5, Font Size 12
Consistency in Heading Scheme, bullets and numbering
Consistency in top, bottom and left, right margins
Alphabetical Harvard referencing and bibliography
