PBHL20003 Social Epidemiology:         TOPIC : DIABETES

Task Description:

The assessment task is to write a report that could be presented to a local health department that is responsible for planning initiatives to address your condition. This report must:

1) review and critique the social epidemiological data that is currently available that could be used to inform public health practice on your topic;

2) outline what additional social epidemiological data would need to be collected as well as how and why it would be needed prior to, during, and after any strategy was implemented; and

3) outline how the social epidemiological data would be used to inform other practitioners, researchers and policy makers. This is an INDIVIDUAL assessment.

In preparing this assessment task, it is important to keep in mind that your intended audience is a local health department. You will need to balance the technical demands of the topic with the needs of this audience, with the understanding that that the aim of such a report in real life would be to inform practitioners working in the field and underpin policy development. In other words, you will need to focus on the aspects of your topic that are most relevant in the development of new strategies and policy and the evidence from the literature that would support this activity. However, this is a formal report and must use appropriate language and referencing.

Word count: 1500 +-10% words, is acceptable, excluding tables, figures, and list of references

Assessment Criteria

Assessment 3 will be marked according the following criteria:

·     The epidemiological data relevant to the topic is summarized and critiqued:       20%

·     Requirements for additional data or outlined and justified:                     20%

·     The ways social epidemiological data would inform policymakers and practitioners is discussed:20%

·     Insight into any specific issues related to the topic and linkage of these issues to available data is presented anddiscussed:       20%

·     Clear, concise language is used and presentation of argument is linear:   10%

·     All work reflects the student's own thinking and words, all information from courses is properly cited, and any direct quotations are identified according to academic conventions:         10%

Referencing Style:     Harvard or APA style

Learning Outcomes Assessed

·     Identify and justify different types of social epidemiological data necessary to understand individual, community and population influences on health

·     Justify ethical principles related to Indigenous Data Sovereignty and respecting the rights and different ways of knowing of First Nations Peoples when using, collecting, analysing and interpreting social epidemiological data

·     Utilise social epidemiological data to advocate for health promotion, protective and disease prevention approaches to public health practice

·     Reflect on and evaluate uses of social epidemiological data from Knowledge Translation and Implementation Science frameworks.

Graduate Attributes: Knowledge; Communication; Cognitive, technical and creative skills; Research; Self-management; Ethical and Professional Responsibility; and Leadership