2021/22 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

CPCH5103M Child Public Health

7.5 creditsClass Size: 95

Module manager: Dr Arnab Seal
Email: arnab.seal@nhs.net

Taught: 1 Sep to 31 Jan (adv yr), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2021/22

Pre-requisite qualifications

All applicants must be registered with the GMC and have a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) experience in hospital or community paediatrics. Participants must maintain a minimum of 16 hours clinical work a week throughout the course.

Module replaces

CPCH5005M Preventive Health and Population Paediatrics

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

Provides the students with an evidenced and critical perspective of child public health and it’s determinants both in the UK and globally, with a focus on the most important current and future child public health challenges.

Objectives

By the end of this module, students will:

- be able to describe basic epidemiological concepts which are relevant to child health
- be familiar with common sources of child health data, how they may be accessed and the existing constraints on their use
- describe in detail the theory and practice of promoting change in health related behaviours
- be able to describe the implications of poverty, inequality and social disadvantage for child health
- be familiar with the current UK immunisation programme, planned changes and current challenges to its effectiveness
- critically appraise the evidence base and current strategies for child injury prevention
- be able to describe the principles of population screening and recent changes in the UK screening programmes affecting children and young people
- recognise the main issues for international child health, particularly in economically poor countries
- be able to summarise the current and potential impact of climate change on child health
- complete a PowerPoint presentation for a lay audience about a local geographical area

Learning outcomes
- to describe the concept of child health and its relation to children’s rights
- to provide an overview to evidence the links between poverty and child health
- to identify the potential, and the limitations, of medical interventions and advocacy for child health
- to critically evaluate current major issues in international child health (in low and middle income countries) and their implications for children’s health in this country and elsewhere

Skills outcomes
Advocate social and population intervention for the benefit of child health nationally and internationally, including maternal health impacts on the child.

Develop a sense of global awareness and responsibility with regard to working in a child health setting.

Syllabus

This module considers preventive medicine, ambulatory paediatrics and education and health in schools. Topics covered include child health surveillance, immunisation and screening programmes, poverty and child health, international child health and epidemiology. Students are required to undertake access public health data for a defined geographic patch in which they are working, analyse the data and identify local health priorities. They are then required to produce a powerpoint presentation for a local audience outlining evidence based public health strategies which could be implemented locally to address the identified priorities.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Seminar	15	1.00	15.00
Tutorial	5	1.00	5.00
Private study hours			45.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			75.00

Private study

30 Contact Hours are scheduled for this module. Although the amount and length of the lectures and seminars will vary from year to year, the overall contact hours will remain fixed. The information tabled above provides guidance only.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Attendance monitoring
- VLE-tutorials
- Participation in discussion
- Preparation for assessment
- Meeting with tutor for students requiring support

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	PowerPoint presentation (max 12 slides & notes) which could be delivered in a 20 minute talk on child health priorities in the local area and suggested improvements	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Detailed guidance on format of PowerPoint presentation is available in the module guide.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/06/2021 16:23:41

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