Measuring Health and Wellbeing

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 Module Title: Measuring Health and WellbeingLevel 3
1 element- 1,500 wordsThis assessment is worth 100% of the overall module mark
 
THE BRIEF/INSTRUCTIONS
Students must achieve 40% to successfully complete this module.   There are four learning outcomes on this module which need to be addressed in appropriate depth to pass this assessment.  
1. Identify and outline key indicators of health
2. Access relevant data sources, extract, and present key information
3. Evaluate choices of data sources utilised
4. Present health related data effectively  
ASSESSMENT METHOD  
Number of Assessments Form of Assessment   % weighting Size of Assessment/Duration/ Wordcount Category of assessment   Learning Outcomes being assessed 1 Assignment 100% 1,500 words Coursework 1, 2, 3,4     Suggested inclusion is below.  
Title Measuring Health and Wellbeing  
Fact Sheet – no word count for this section – this section must be written in 3rd person
You should choose a topic of health or wellbeing interesting to you, and relevant to your chosen progression route. (This could be a particular disease or condition, the way a health care system is organised, a comparison of health outcomes in different countries, the impact of social determinants on health, etc. These are just ideas and not a restricted list of choices.) You should create a 2-page fact sheet making use of Microsoft Word about your chosen topic of health or wellbeing. You must include references in this section. Your fact sheet must include the following. Statistics around the topic (for example, birth rate, diagnosis rate, differences across gender or race/ethnicity)Images to represent the data (such as graphs, images, or diagrams)Relevant key information about your topic (for example, diagnosis, prognosis, symptoms)The key indicators of health (for example, morbidity rate, mortality rate, incidence rate, prevalence rate)    
Rationale – word count of 1500 words for this section – this section can be written in 1st or 3rd person  
Answer the following questions – you can use the questions as subtitle if you wish. You must include references in this section.  
1) Why did you choose this topic?  This could be from personal experience, a relevant area for your progression route, a topic of personal interest or a ‘hot topic’ in current news  
2) Which data sources did you use?  
3) What are the relative merits of these sources? These two questions could be answered together. What sources did you reference in your fact sheet? Why were they a good source? What are the drawbacks of the source? Are there any sources you chose to ignore and why?  
4) Which indicators of health and/or wellbeing are you using?  
5) Why are you using these? These two questions could be answered together. Which indictors of health/wellbeing have you used? Why did you use these? Why did you ignore others?  
6) Why did you present the data in the way that you did? Did you use bullet points/graphs/images? Why did you use these? Why did you show the data in the way you did? Why did you choose not to use other methods to present information?  
7) What factors influenced the overall design of your factsheet? Think about the colours and layout of the fact sheet you created, why did you choose to use these images and layout? Did you include bullet points? Why? Did you separate the information in some way?
Why? Did you include any further information about the topic? Why?    
Reference List You must include a minimum of 4 correctly referenced sources in your reference list. An assignment of this length would be expected to have at least 8 different sources from reliable sources. All sources referenced in the reference list, must be included, and correctly referenced in your fact sheet and/or rationale.