L3 HSC Unit 8 Promoting Health: Assignment 1 OUTLINE/INSTRUCTIONS

Here is an Instruction booklet for Unit 8 Assignment 1, one of the Units you study for L3 Health and Social, Its detailed and Precise, for the following information below.

Unit number and Title: 8 Promoting Public Health

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

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

**Assignment Title: **Our Healthy Nation?

8/A.P1 Explain the strategies used to develop public health policy in order for it to meet its aims.
8/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.
8/B.P3 Explain factors affecting current patterns of health and ill health in a specific demographic area.
8/B.P4 Explain the impact of public health policy in minimising these factors in relation to a specific demographic area.
8/A.M1 Analyse how public health policy is influenced by strategies and patterns of health and ill health.
8/B.M2 Assess the extent to which factors affect current patterns of health and ill health with reference to a specific demographic area.
8/B.M3 Assess how minimising the factors affecting health can contribute to improving the health of the population in relation to the area.
8/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