Produce a health inequalities report on a designated zone

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History & Principles of Public Health Assessment Task - Health inequalities audit

Introduction - For Assessment task, students will work as an independent population health consultant contracted by the Victorian Government's Department of Health to perform a health inequality audit for a specific geographic zone within Victoria. Students will apply an internationally recognised audit tool used in public health practice to provide their analysis of inequality within their assigned zone, and then prepare a report on their findings for submission to the Department of Health.

Purpose - (1) To apply knowledge of health inequality through use of a tool used by public health practitioners; and (2) to make a determination about population health and inequalities based on available data.

Background and resources -

This task is situated within the overall PUBH610 Assessment simulation. Your role is as an independent Population Health Consultant, contracted by the Victorian Government's Department of Health, to produce a health inequalities report on a designated zone within the state.

Specification - Your contract with the Department of Health specifies the following requirements for your health inequalities audit:

Conducting an audit of your assigned Kingdom, with reference to the 14-15 sub-zones that constitute that Kingdom.
Use of the UK National Health Services' Health Equity Audit tool, with your final audit report constituting Step 2 of the standard audit cycle.
Your audit report should detail 3-4 major health inequalities within the assigned Kingdom, and consider multiple inequality types (e.g. socioeconomic, gender, age...). Data should be represented visually (as appropriate) or in tabular form, and described clearly.
Your audit report should provide a summary of the health inequalities identified within the Kingdom.

Word count: 1800.

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len2263103

3/22/2019 12:18:39 AM

Word count: 1800. References ( APA) , it’s like report just pick up subzones 12345678910 indicator. Either we need to make bar graph or table. No duplicate information. And we need to explain the relationship between indicator, for example: smoking leads to lung cancer. Referencing - APA6 is the required referencing style for this assessment task. Please ensure that you are familiar with the formatting and usage requirements for this style.

len2263103

3/22/2019 12:18:34 AM

Assessment criteria and standards for this task are provided in the following rubric. Each criterion is marked according to a five-point standard, from "poor" to "excellent", with a descriptor for each standard. Within each standard there is a small marking range that further differentiates performance. 1. Application of audit tool to simulation - Audit tool is comprehensively applied and suitably adapted to the simulation data, with a variety of means used to demonstrate inequalities/inequities. 2. Rationale for health inequalities/inequities analysed - Audit report's analysis considers indicators with well established health inequality relationships, all of which are soundly supported by reliable evidence.

len2263103

3/22/2019 12:18:30 AM

3. Framing of audit results within public health principles - Audit report makes several findings about health inequalities/inequities within zone, and provides a comprehensive discussion of inequalities/inequities in relation to public health principles. 4. Professionalism of audit report - Audit report is of a high professional standard in every respect: formatting, suitability for intended purpose and audience, coherent expression, free of spelling/grammatical errors and referencing.

len2263103

3/22/2019 12:18:25 AM

5. Overall evaluation of health inequalities/inequities and relevance to practice - Audit report meets all required elements to a high degree: (i) very clear evaluation of health inequalities/inequities; (ii) very rigorous analysis of available data; (iii) highly relevant to public health practice; and (iv) at (or above) the level of actual consultancy reports in the public health sector.

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