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SP50368: Global public health evaluation and monitoring

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 7.5 [equivalent to 15 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 150
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Research Proposal (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: Show awareness of the importance of ongoing evaluation and monitoring of public health approaches and policies at a local, national and global level
Demonstrate an understanding of the differences between policy and programme evaluation
Show awareness of public health evaluation research methods and critique evaluation and monitoring approaches
Discuss the ethics related to public health-related evaluation
Demonstrate an understanding of the economic evaluation of public health approaches and policies, including cost benefit analysis
Show awareness of the role of a range of sectors and stakeholders in public health evaluation and monitoring.


Aims: The aim of this unit is to develop an understanding of how to evaluate and monitor public health approaches and policies.

Content: This unit will introduce students to the concepts of public health monitoring and evaluation for developed and implemented public health approaches and policies, such as those discussed in Unit 4. It will discuss the importance of ongoing monitoring and evaluation for the enhancement and adaptation of public health approaches and policies. It will teach students methods for carrying out programme and policy evaluations, considering study design, data collection, analysis, ethics and stakeholder involvement, along with the importance of dissemination of findings. It will discuss the importance of economics in the evaluation of public health approaches and policies through cover economic evaluative approaches and integrating them into public health monitoring.

Course availability:

SP50368 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department for Health

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