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HL50614: Public health scale up and sustainability

[Page last updated: 03 August 2022]

Academic Year: 2022/23
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 7.5 [equivalent to 15 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 150
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: OT 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Poster Presentation (OT 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of scale up and sustainability in the development and implementation of public health policies
Summarise the organisational structure or change required, including policy and financial resource allocation, for scale up and sustainability
To discuss the science of practice and policy scale up in many contexts
To critique the scalability and   sustainability of public health policy and approaches, recognising challenges and facilitators to both
To design and apply pilot and other programmatic research for the successful scaling up of public health approach and policies
To demonstrate an understanding of scale up strategy and guidance and its application in a range of contexts
Critical analysis of investment in health improvement, and the part played by economic.

Aims: The aim of this unit is to teach students the importance and means for ensuring that public health approaches and policies can be scaled up and sustained through careful planning and multisectoral and multistakeholder collaboration.

Content: This unit will cover the importance of scalability and sustainability in effective public health policies and approaches, such as those evaluated in Unit 5, to ensure lasting and wide reaching impacts on population health. It will consider horizontal, vertical and spontaneous scale up along with programmatic research, strategy and guidance for successful scaling up. It will cover the legislative and policy support needed for scaling up and sustaining public health approaches and policies, as well as identifying the challenges to these, including conflicts of interest from other sectors and stakeholders. The unit will cover the required organisational changes and financial investment needed for scale up and sustainability, along with the barriers and facilitators to these.

Programme availability:

HL50614 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department for Health

Notes:

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