Urban health
Urban health
Order Description
Assessment Strategy and Instruments
The module will be assessed through two assessment components as follows:
1. Assessment Component 002 CWK- The Urban Health Profile
The Urban Health Profile (1500 words) is due at 3pm in Week in 17 (Friday 17
th February 2017) and carries 35%
of the module’s total marks. This will be submitted in the form of a written Urban Health Profile (report) of
1500 words.
The Urban Health Profile requires you to focus on two aspects: the practical (observation and collection of data
from a local / neighbourhood area of your choice) and the theoretical (informed by the wider literature) work
on an urban health issue you choose for this Assessment. You have to choose a relevant urban health issue,
choose a local area (neighbourhood) to carry-out the study, and physically observe and collect data from the
area for the Profile. You also have to look for scholarly literature published in relation to this urban health issue
(this can be about the area and beyond). This literature will inform your analysis and theoretical discussion of
the urban health issue and the area studied.
To prepare this Assessment Component 002 CWK, you have to take note of the following:
a) Choose a relevant urban health issue for your Urban Health Profile. This could be the same or different to
what you would want to look at for your Final Assessment Component 004 (Final Report). Provide a clear
rationale why this is an urban health issue and why you have chosen to study the issue in the selected
neighbourhood area. You have to provide clear and full description of the local area (neighbourhood) you
have chosen to study.
b) Present and give an account of the data and information you observed and collected from the local area
(or neighbourhood) in relation to the urban health issue you are studying. This could include various
aspects in relation to the area and the urban health issue such as size of the area, population, observation
on related determinants (factors) that influence the urban health issue, physical facilities or amenities that
are relevant to this issue as resources (e.g. parks; gyms; food outlets - corner shops, supermarkets, fresh
food markets, restaurants, fast food outlets, community centres, housing and accommodation) and health
and social service points relevant to this issue. This part requires you to do a community inventory in
relation to the urban health issue you have chosen. You can do this with the help of Google mapping.
c) Provide an analysis and interpretation of data and information presented in this Profile, commenting on
the implications of such data on the urban health issue and population health in the area. In this part, you
should be scholarly enough by linking your analysis and interpretation of your local data with the wider
literature on this urban health issue. Therefore, you should be able to suggest relevant recommendations
and draw conclusions from your analysis and interpretation of the Profile data that are informed by the
wider literature on this urban health issue.
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d) The written Urban Health Profile should include: a title– reflecting the urban health issue and local area
(neighbourhood)studied; an introduction – signposting the work and providing a description of the
urban health issue and the area studied; a clear rationale for the report to justify why this is an
urban health issue and for choosing to study the issue in the chosen area; community profiling of
the study area(local area), including any key issue/s observed or known about the
area; observation data presentationand description of data and information collection about
the urban health issue and the area, including all place-based characteristics that relate to the urban
health issue being studied; discussion, analysis and interpretation of dataand information
from theObservation about the urban health issue and the area chosen (with strong scholarly reference
to the widely published literature on this urban health issue,that is,the discussion should be underpinned
by the wider literature on this urban health issue); and suggested relevant recommendations and
conclusion that reflect the work covered in the report and the urban health issue and the area studied.
e)
Urban Health Profile Marking Criteria
The Urban Health Profile will be assessed against LO1, 2, 6 and the marking will focus on:
a) Ability to choose a relevant urban health issue and clear rationale (20%)
b) Seeking, collecting and presenting relevant data / information, and creating useful tools to present the
Urban Health Profile (30%)
c) Analysing and interpreting the data and information, commenting on implications of such data and
drawing relevant conclusions (30%)
d) Academic conventions, referencing, presentation, structure and communication skills(20%)
2. Assessment Component 004 - The Extended Final Report
The Final Report (3 500 words) is due in Week 30 (Friday 02nd June 2017) and carries a weight of 65% of the
Module’s total marks. You can prepare and write the Final Report on the same urban health issue you chose
for the Urban Health Profile, Assessment Component 002CWK.
The following is what you should consider for this assessment component:
a) Report Title – should include the health issue, target population group and the area. London or New York
based papers should look at the boroughs; elsewhere you can just look at the whole city as one study unit.
b) Introduction – brief overview of the urban health issue and signposting to show the sections you will
include in the work.
c) Rationale of why this is an urban health issue – identify and explain the evidence including epidemiological
data you will use to show why this is an urban health problem.
d) Explain the urban context and determinants that you will look at to explain the impact on the health issue.
If you are looking at the same topic and borough as before, you can draw on the Urban Health Profile.
Remember to draw on the wider context, including London if you are looking at a London borough.
e) Identify and explain the public health consequences and implications of this urban health problem that
impact on the general populations, on the individual and on the health services.
f) Explain what strategies and interventions for addressing this urban health problem you will critique in the
paper.
g) What recommendations and conclusions you expect to make?
Final Report Marking Criteria
The Final Report will be assessed against LOs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and marks will be awarded as follows:
a) Rationale and Content Relevance: ability to choose a relevant urban health issue, ability to provide
justification as to why the problem chosen is an urban health issue; reflecting the module’s learning
outcomes30%
b) Analysis and Critical Thinking: synthesis, analysis, interpretation, discussion and critique 50%
c) Research and Communication Skills: seeking relevant literature and referencing*, report structure,
academic writing skills and presentation 20%
***Students will fail the assessments if their work is not correctly referenced in the Harvard method, both in
the main text and in References list. Please see the relevant section of your student handbook concerning
referencing procedures and grading criteria. In addition, you are strongly advised to consult referencing
resources provided on Blackboard (Web Learn).