Competency information
Details
Identify a contemporary public health policy to examine.
Considerations
- Policy and strategy development life cycles.
- Relevant current health and care policies and the associated strategies.
- Strategy analysis methodologies (such as SWOT, PEST and Four Corners, etc.).
- Context
- Content
- Processes
- Actors (stakeholders).
- Current issues in public health, e.g. obesity, liver disease, ageing, antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis, climate change, migrant health.
- How evidence is used to inform and influence public health policy:
- introduction to evidence synthesis and hierarchy of evidence
- translation of evidence into policy and practice.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Select and analyse a public health policy using the UK public health framework and critically appraise the knowledge base underpinning the development of the policy. |