Assigment Brief Contemporary Issues in Healthcare
Assigment Brief Contemporary Issues in Healthcare
Assigment Brief Contemporary Issues in Healthcare
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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION
In the UK and worldwide, unprecedented pressure on the health and social care
systems has led to a refocus on public health and related inequalities. Health
policy analysis is needed to prepare health and social care systems to reduce
disparities between population groups. Your role as a health and social care
practitioner is to identify local issues related to inequalities and present your
findings back to the local Health and Wellbeing Board.
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For example, the report will contain an inequality model, such as the Dahlgren-
Whitehead Rainbow Model (1991) and examine improvement strategies from a
theoretical perspective such as the Social or Medical model. Throughout the
report, you should focus on the local inequalities related to the chosen health
issue. The report should conclude with recommendations based on your findings.
REPORT FORMAT
1. Executive Summary
2. Table of Contents
3. Introduction
4. Examination of the chosen health issue in the context of the chosen borough
5. Application of a health inequality framework and analysis of the
determinants of the chosen health issue
6. Exploration and discussion of strategies, both local and national, to manage
the chosen health issue
7. Conclusion and recommendations
8. References (Harvard format)
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
LO2 Critically review literature related to contemporary issues and best practice in
healthcare management.
READING REQUIREMENT
Core Reading
Bartley, M., 2017. Health inequality: an introduction to concepts, theories and methods. [e-
book] Cambridge: Polity Press. Available through: ARU Library.
Donaldson, L.J., Rutter, P.D., 2018. Donaldson’s Essential Public Health. Boca Raton:
CRC Press. Available through: ARU Library.
Institute of Health Equity, 2020. Health Equity In England: The Marmot Review 10
Years On. Available through: https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-
reports/marmot-review-10-years-on
The Marmot Review, 2010. Fair Society, Healthy Lives Full Report. Strategic Review
of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010. Available through:
https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/fair-society-healthy-
lives-the-marmot-review
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Warwick-Booth, L., Cross, R. and Lowcock, D., 2021. Contemporary health studies: An
introduction. [e-book] John Wiley & Sons. Available through: Kortext.
Wills, J. & Naidoo, J., 2022. Foundations for Health Promotion (5th Ed.). [e-book] Amsterdam:
Elsevier. Available through: ARU Library.
Additional Reading
Marmot, M., 2015. The Health Gap: The challenge of an unequal world. London:
Bloomsbury.
Whitehead, M. & Dahlgren, G., 2006. Concepts and Principles for Tackling Social
Inequalities in Health: Levelling Up Part 1. World Health Organisation.
Wilkinson, R. & Pickett, K., 2010. The Spirit Level: Why greater equality makes
societies stronger. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Please note that the sources listed are expected for your written assessment.
These sources will be part of the module and their content is deemed necessary
to produce a relevant assessment. Module markers will expect to see them
integrated into your work and appropriately referenced.
Failure to include these sources may result in a “Viva Voce” meeting during
which you would be required to explain your work and your reasons for not
including these key sources.
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Table 1
The work will be assessed in an integrative manner as indicated in the marking rubric, that is consistent with Anglia Ruskin University generic assessment criteria and marking standards
Criteria / Grade 0-29%: 30-39%: 40-49%: 50-59%: 60-69%: 70-79%: 80-89%: 90-100%:
Absent or deficient Adequate Sound knowledge, Good analysis- Excellent analysis- Outstanding Exceptional analysis -
evidence of Little evidence of knowledge, use of use of scholarly consistent use of high level of analysis-Work Work pushes the
knowledge, Absent knowledge. scholarly conventions scholarly intellectual rigour pushes the boundaries of the
or deficient Little evidence or conventions inconsistent. Sound conventions. and consistency. boundaries of the discipline. Exceptional
evidence of use of scholarly inconsistent. academic/ Good Academic/ Excellent academic/ discipline. Academic/
academic/ conventions. Adequate expressive/ Expressive/ expressive/ Outstanding Expressive/
expressive/ academic/ professional skills. Professional skills. professional skills Academic/ professional skills and
professional skills. expressive/ Expressive/ creativity
professional skills. professional skills
and creativity
LO2: Knowledge There is deficient or Limited reference to Adequate reference Sound reference to Good reference to Excellent reference Outstanding Exceptional
and no reference to the the health issue and to the health issue the health issue and the health issue and to the health issue management of management of
Understanding health issue or local local area in the and local area in the local area in the local area in the and local area in the learning resources learning resources
Examine and area in the assignment. Limited assignment. assignment. Sound assignment. Good assignment. and outstanding and exceptional
critique the assignment brief. knowledge of a Adequate knowledge of a knowledge of a Excellent knowledge reference to the reference to the
literature related Deficient or no health inequality knowledge of a health inequality health inequality of a health inequality health issue and health issue and local
to Healthcare knowledge of a model with limited health inequality model with sound model with a good with excellent local area in the area in the
Management and health inequality relation to the model with relation to the relation to the relation to the assignment. assignment.
explore the model with deficient determinants of adequate relation to determinants of determinants of determinants of Outstanding Exceptional
relationship or no relation to the health with limited the determinants of health with sound health with good health with excellent knowledge of a knowledge of a
between current determinants of application of health with application of application of application of health inequality health inequality with
issues health with deficient theory. adequate theory. theory. theory. with outstanding clear originality in
or no application of application of relation to the expression and
theory. theory. determinants of relation to the
health, with some determinants of
originality of health. Clearly
expression. exceeds the
assessment brief.
50 Marks 0-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-50
LO3: Intellectual, Deficient or no Limited evidence of Adequate evidence Sound evidence of Good evidence of Excellent evidence Outstanding Exceptional evidence
practical, evidence of any improvement of improvement improvement improvement of improvement evidence of of improvement
affective and improvement strategies/ strategies/ strategies/ strategies/ strategies/ improvement strategies/
transferrable strategies/ recommendations recommendations recommendations, recommendations, recommendations, strategies/ recommendations,
skills recommendations with limited with adequate Sound identification Good identification Excellent recommendations. Exceptional
Critically evaluate with deficient or no identification and identification and and application of and application of identification and Outstanding identification and
the options identification of application of application of theory. theory. application of identification and application of theory.
available in theory with deficient theory. theory. theory. application of Clearly exceeds the
contemporary or no application of theory. assessment brief and
Healthcare theory. demonstrates
Management significant originality.
40 Marks 0-11 12-15 16-19 20-23 24-27 28-31 32- 35 36-40
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Academic Skills The appropriate The appropriate The appropriate The appropriate A good logical An excellent logical Outstanding and Exceptional structure
Presentation in report style has not report style has report style has report style is easy to structure with structure with accurate logical with exceptional
terms of been used or is been used, although been used with a follow, has been accurate expression accurate expression structure with expression
structure, largely inaccurate. structure and adequate structure used with a sound and content has and content used outstanding throughout.
language and The Harvard content is limited. and adequate structure and sound been used throughout. Excellent expression Exceptional use of the
Harvard referencing format Limited use of the content. Adequate content. Sound use throughout. Good use of the Harvard throughout. Harvard referencing
referencing has not been Harvard referencing use of the Harvard of the Harvard use of the Harvard referencing format Outstanding use of format with no
followed. Very weak format with referencing format referencing format referencing format with few the Harvard inaccuracies.
academic writing numerous with numerous with some with occasional inaccuracies. referencing format Exceptional academic
style with numerous inaccuracies. inaccuracies. inaccuracies. Sound inaccuracies. Good Excellent academic with no inaccuracies. writing style with no
grammatical and Limited academic Adequate academic academic writing academic writing writing style with few Outstanding grammatical or
spelling errors. writing style with writing style with style with some style with occasional grammatical and academic writing spelling errors.
many grammatical many grammatical grammatical and grammatical and spelling errors. style with no Clearly exceeds the
and spelling errors. and spelling errors. spelling errors. spelling errors. grammatical or assessment brief.
spelling errors.
10 marks 0-2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10
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ARU GENERIC ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND MARKING STANDARDS: LEVEL 6 – the
Depth stage
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Excellent knowledge base
Excellent management of learning resources,
that supports analysis,
with degree of autonomy/research that may
70- evaluation and problem-
exceed the assessment brief. Structured and
solving in theory/
79% creative expression. Excellent academic/
practice/ethics of
intellectual skills and practical/team/
discipline with
professional/ problem-solving skills
considerable originality
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A marginal
Limited use of learning resources. Unable to
fail in
Limited knowledge base. work autonomously. Little input to teams.
module
30- Limited understanding of Limited academic/ intellectual skills. Still
outcome(s)
discipline/ethical issues. mainly descriptive. General difficulty with
39% . Satisfies
Difficulty with theory and structure/ accuracy in expression. Practical/
default
problem solving in discipline professional/problem-solving skills that are not
qualifying
yet secure
mark
Awarded for: (i) non-submission; (ii) dangerous practice and; (iii) in situations
0% where the student fails to address the assignment brief (eg: answers the wrong
question) and/or related learning outcomes
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