2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PHLT1001 The Public's Health: Medical, Social, Political

10 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Darren Shickle
Email: d.shickle@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The module will focus on changing paradigms in health with a shift from population to individual approaches in the delivery of healthcare and arguably a shift back again. This has been associated with parallel shifts in emphasis from prevention to treatment, before a recognition in the last decade that spiralling treatment costs requires investment in prevention. Throughout all of this, the public's health has been buffeted by changes in the winds of political, economic and social change. The module takes historical, political and sociological perspectives on what can be learnt from the delivery of health over the last two and a half thousand years in order to address the health challenges of the 21st Century.This module uses a blend of distance learning lectures, online discussion boards and face to face tutorials to facilitate students combining this module with other timetable commitments. Ten online lectures will be uploaded onto the VLE on a weekly basis. There will be three facilitated online discussion boards for students to post their own comments to a topic arising from the lecture, and respond to comments of other students. There will be three face to face tutorials throughout the term. These tutorials will be repeated on different days during the week, to allow students to fit these with their other modules.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to provide an appreciation and understanding of different paradigms of delivery of healthcare and how these impact (positively and negatively) on the public's health and how this knowledge may be used to identify solutions to the health challenges of the 21st Century.

Learning outcomes
On completing the module, students should be able to describe and appraise:
Changes in health paradigms
Changing patterns of disease in the population
Key changes in structure of the NHS since 1948
Different models for the delivery and funding of health care in various countries
Health challenges for the 21st Century
Policy options to address challenges to the public's health

Skills outcomes
Understanding of different theories of health and how these have developed over time in the light of scientific discovery.
Understanding of the ways in which societies have organised their health care systems and how these impact on the public's health.

Syllabus

Airs, Waters and Places (500 B.C.-1760)
Industrial Revolution versus Social Revolution (1760-1948)
National Health service in a Brave New World (1948-1979)
The rise the hospital manager (1979-1991)
The rise of the health economist (1991-1999)
Reorganisation, Reorganisation, Reorganisation (1991-2013)
Models of health care provision in Europe and North America
Models of health care provision in Low and Middle Income Countries
Old and new health problems-changing patterns of disease
Challenges (and solutions) for the 21st Century

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
e-Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Discussion forum	3	1.00	3.00
Tutorial	3	1.00	3.00
Independent online learning hours			64.00
Private study hours			20.00
Total Contact hours			16.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Independent learning will be facilitated through focussed tasks (such as reading, watching a video via the VLE), in preparation for discussion in the following lecture or tutorial. Formative e learning tasks will be set to guide student learning. Students will be provided with self-test questions to help them prepare for the final examination, which will be in the form of MCQs/ EMQs

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Progress will be monitored through student participation with on line activities and preparation for the taught sessions, including pop quizzes. Students will be provided with formative self-test questions to help them prepare for the examination.

Methods of assessment

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	1 hr 30 mins	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 15/05/2017

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