module specification

 This module aims to introduce students to the historical and contemporary contexts of healthcare, public health and social care whilst investigating current health and social care policies and legislation and its application to the organisation and delivery of health and social care.

• Introduction to health care in the UK
• Introduction to social care
• Introduction to public health
• Roles and settings in health & social care
• Historical context of health and social care in the UK
• The concept of health
• Health promotion and prevention
• Introduction to epidemiology
• Health inequalities, social inequalities and the social determinants of health
• Equality, equity, values and social justices
• Introduction to health policy
• Partnership working in health and social care All LO1-4

The lecture and workshop programme is designed to enable students to examine key issues with regard to health and social care in order to make links between theory, health and social care policy and practice.  There will be a mixed programme to include:
Lectures
Interactive workshops: collaborative problem-based learning
Observation/field trips
WebLearn, video materials & other online educational content

 On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Identify health and social care issues within a specific population
2. Understand different health and social care structures and provisions
3. Describe selected health and social care policies
4. Identify the social determinants of health and the relationship to health inequalities

The module includes informal individual and group work exercises and an essay plan. Students will identify the health and social care provision of a selected area/setting on an observation/field trip.  They will be asked to present their findings in class and receive formative feedback on this.  This task is designed specifically to help students build the necessary knowledge and skills and so that formative feedback may be provided in a timely manner.

The formal assessment is in Two parts:

1. Students must design and deliver a presentation focusing on one area of current health and social care provision in the selected area/setting and undertake a 5 minute podcast about the content (LO1 and LO3) (30%)

2. Write a 2000 word report (70%) identifying one social determinant of health and analyse how it is being addressed in the selected area/setting which draws on their learning from the presentations and relates to the same selected area/setting (LO2,LO4)

Core:
Adams, R. (2007) Foundations in health and Social Care. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke.

C. Rees, P. Forbes, and B. Kubler, Student Employability Profiles: A Guide for Higher Education Practitioners, 2nd ed., The Higher Education Academy, York: United Kingdom, 2006. Available online at: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/student_employability_profiles_apr07.

Cameron, A., Lart, R., Bostock, L. and Coomber, C., 2014. Factors that promote and hinder joint and integrated working between health and social care services: a review of research literature. Health & social care in the community, 22(3), pp.225-233.

Carey, G., Crammond, B., & Keast, R. (2014). Creating change in government to address the social determinants of health: how can efforts be improved? . BMC public health, 14(1), 1087.

Craig, C. (2009). Study skills for health and social care students. Chapter 11: Reading for information. Sage publishers, London.
Craig, C. (2009). Study skills for health and social care students. Chapter 12: Recording Ideas and information . Sage publishers, London.

Craig, C. (2009). Study skills for health and social care students. Chapter 13: Writing for information. Sage publishers, London.

Glasby, J. (2017). Understanding health and social care (third edition). Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL, USA: Policy Press at the University of Bristol.

HM treasury Office and Cabinet Office (2016) Childhood obesity: a plan for action From: Department of Health , Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, HM Treasury and Cabinet Office

Marmot M (2010) Fair Society, Healthy Lives: A Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post - 2010 .The Marmot Review, London. Available at: http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/fair-society-healthy-lives-the-marmot-review/fair-society-healthy-lives-full-report-pdf.pdf (accessed on 01 April 2018).

Naidoo, J. and Wills, J. eds., (2015). Health studies: an introduction . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Whitehead , M. (2007). A typology of action s to tackle social inequalities in health . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(6), 473 - 478.

World Health Organization, 2014. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Social determinants of mental health. Geneva: World Health Organization, 7.
Additional Reading:
Buchbinder, M., Rivkin-Fish, M. and Walker, R.L. eds., 2016. Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations Across the Disciplines. UNC Press Books.

Glasby, J and Dickinson, H,. (2014) Partnership working 2e: What is integrated care and how can we deliver it? Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL, USA: Policy Press at the University of Bristol

Humphries R, Thorlby R, Holder H, Hall P, Charles A (2016). Social care for older people: home truths. London: The King’s Fund. Available at: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/field/field_publication_file/Social_care_older_people_Kings_Fund_Sep_2016.pdf (accessed on 01 April 2018).
Lloyd, L. (2012). Health and care in ageing societies: A new international approach . Bristol: Policy Press at the University of Bristol

Marmot, M . (2015). The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world . London: Bloomsbury Press
Thompson, S.R., (2014). The Essential Guide to Public Health and Health Promotion. Routledge.
Whitehead, M., (1992). The concepts and principles of equity and health . International journal of health services, 22(3), pp.429 - 445.

WHO (2003) Social Determinants of Health, The Solid Facts . Available at: www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/98438/e81384.pdf (accessed on 01 April 2018).

WHO (2008) Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on thesocial determinants of health: final report of the commission on the social determinants of health. Available at: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/thecommission/finalreport/en/ (accessed on 01 April 2018).

Wistow, J., Blackman, T., Byrne, D., & Wistow, G. (2015). Studying health inequalities: An applied approach . Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL, USA: Policy Press at the University of Bristol.

Websites:
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
https://www.nice.org.uk/
https://www.scie.org.uk/
https://www.ons.gov.uk/
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health - profiles
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public - health - england
https://www.gov.uk/government/topics