Assignment Task:
Follow the instructions carefully and you can choose the city and its health issue.
1. Background
In this task you are required to write a 3,000 word report
- You should approach this assignment task as a professional in your field who has been commissioned to prepare this report for a government agency or a NGO in your chosen city/urban community.
- Your report should identify a key health issue in your chosen city/urban community, the determinants underlying the health issue and produce your own recommendations on strategies to address this, based on one of the settings-based approaches studied in the unit.
- While your recommendations are for your community, they need to be based on evidence. Writing high quality reports is an important professional skill that may or may not be familiar to you.
2. Details
Your report should consist of the following sections:
1) An executive summary
This provides a succinct summary of the work in your report. As this is a summary produced in your own words it does not require references.
2) Introduction
This section should briefly introduce your report and provide relevant background information on the urban community. Relevant background information includes describing the location of your chosen community and statistical/demographic information. For example if your chosen health issue relates to children, your introduction would need to provide information on the age breakdown of your community. This is where you can build on your work carried out in AT1 in more detail. Your introduction should also include a clear description of the purpose and main sections of the report.
3) Health issue
This section should provide a concise examination of the health issue in your urban community including relevant demographic/statistical information e.g. you need to show who is affected, what is the prevalence of the health issue etc. You then need to discuss some of the social and environmental determinants that relate to your chosen health issue in your chosen urban community.
4) Healthy settings approach & recommendations
This section should provide a brief description of the healthy setting approach you will use to inform your set of recommendations. You can choose any of the urban healthy setting approaches discussed in this unit (e.g. Healthy Cities etc.). It should then propose a set of recommendations for using this healthy settings approach to improve the health issue identified in part 3 (above) in your community. These recommendations are your own ideas. It is important that they relate to your chosen health issue. Your recommendations also need to relate to one or more of the underlying principles from your chosen settings approach. While your recommendations are for your community, they need to be based on evidence e.g. a program run in another city with a similar health issue to yours.
5) Conclusion
This section should summarize your key findings. It should also provide a brief reflection on how you might use what you have learnt in this unit in your current/future work.