Unit 8: Promoting Public Health

Pass                                            Merit

Distinction

Learning aim A: Examine strategies for developing public health policy to improve the health of individuals and the population

AB.D1  Evaluate how far the use of strategies and monitoring the health status of the population helps public health policy to meet its aims in reducing the factors that influence public health, with reference to a specific demographic area.

A.P1 Explain the strategies used to develop public health policy in order for it to meet its aims.

A.P2 Explain how monitoring information to determine patterns of health and ill health is used by government to inform the creation of public health policy.

A.M1 Analyse how public health policy is influenced by strategies and patterns of health and ill health.

Learning aim B: Examine the factors affecting health and the impact of addressing these factors to improve public health

B.P3 Explain factors affecting current patterns of health and ill health in a specific demographic area.

B.P4 Explain the impact of public health policy in minimising these factors in relation to a specific demographic area.

B.M2 Assess the extent to which factors affect current patterns of health and ill health, with reference to a specific demographic area.

B.M3 Assess how minimising the factors affecting health can contribute to improving the health of the population in relation to the area.

Learning aim C: Investigate how health is promoted to improve the health of the population

C.D2

D.D3

D.D4

Justify the approaches used to promote and protect health and prevent disease in a selected health promotion campaign.

Evaluate the success of a specific public health campaign in encouraging behaviour change in relation to health.

Evaluate how far a recent health promotion campaign met the aims of public health policy through the strategies and approaches used to improve the health of a demographic area.

C.P5 Explain how approaches to health promotion and protection have been applied in a selected health promotion campaign.

C.P6 Explain how approaches to prevention and control have been applied in a selected campaign.

C.M4 Assess the success of approaches used to promote and protect health and prevent disease in a selected health promotion campaign.

Learning aim D: Investigate how health promotion encourages individuals to change their behaviour in relation to their own health

D.P7 Explain how models or theories that justify behaviour change can be used to overcome barriers in relation to a selected health promotion campaign.

D.P8 Explain the features of a selected health promotion campaign and the approaches used to increase public awareness.

D.M5 Analyse how theories or models and approaches have been used in a selected health promotion campaign to overcome barriers and increase public awareness.