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HL20509: Critical skills for health practitioners

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework Blog (CW 50% - Qualifying Mark: 1)
  • Coursework Focus Group (CW 50% - Qualifying Mark: 1)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To provide students with critical key skills required to plan health engagement activities and gather and reflect feedback.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
* Understand the different theories of communicating and engaging with a range of communities in a public health context
* Demonstrate critical awareness of bias and ethical issues, including when dealing with diverse and clinical populations across communities
* Identify, apply and evaluate different approaches to gathering feedback about health promotion interventions and campaigns
* Understand how to achieve quality in feedback gathering
* Introduce participatory and innovative approaches to communicating with communities in health contexts.

Skills:
Knowledge and understanding (taught, facilitated and assessed)
Analysis of research (taught, facilitated and assessed)
Independent work (facilitated and assessed)
Written communication (facilitated and assessed)
Oral communication (facilitated)
Problem exploration, comparison of options, justification of complex problem solving (taught and facilitated)
Read and synthesise information (facilitated and assessed)
Integrated, cross-disciplinary understanding (facilitated and assessed)
Information Technology (facilitated).

Content:
Planning engagement activities: Ethical issues and public health engagement;
Understanding Stigma and Cultural Variance in collecting feedback - Assumptions, bias; Change and innovation from within health organisations and contexts; Communication skills; Public Engagement; Addressing diversity/inequality and participatory approaches (citizen science).
Gathering and reflecting on feedback: Interview skills (recruitment, design); questionnaire design; focus groups; Recording feedback.
Programme availability:

HL20509 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB18 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKB18 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AFM18 : MSci(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKM18 : MSci(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
  • Undergraduates: .
  • Postgraduates: .