HEALTH SCIENCES

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr Fiona Marshall

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

1. An introduction to concepts concerned with health from a variety of intellectual approaches, to include sociological, biological, psychological, environmental and economic viewpoints.


2. To follow this, the subjects covered will be topic based, covering issues to include measuring health, health policy, health and the family, public health, health promotion, health care research, disability, nutrition and health in developing countries. In each case the topic will be considered from the perspectives outlined at (1).

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and one-hour self-directed learning each week and 1 one-hour tutorial each fortnight.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

At least 200 credit points including 1st and 2nd year Health Science core courses or permission from Course Co-ordinator.

Notes

Available only to students in programme year 3 and above.

Overview

Literature review; research styles, formulating a research question; study design; sampling; interviewing; observation; questionnaire design; ethics in research; writing a research proposal; data collection and analysis; writing up research; uses of research and dissemination; theoretical approaches.

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

At least 200 credit points including 1st and 2nd year Health Science core courses or permission from Course Co-ordinator.

Overview

Social aspects (Health and illness in the context of social structure); cultural aspects (definition of reality in diagnosis and treatment); personal aspects (the experiences of sickness and of caring for a relative); political and economic aspects (health services and planning).

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment: 1 essay (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr E van Teijlingen

Pre-requisites

Overview

Four major sociological areas will be covered in the course:

1. Inequality – an examination of the relationship of health to age, gender, race and socio-economic status;


2. Definitions of reality – in diagnosis and treatment of ill health. In particular stress and handicap will be considered;


3. Organisation of health care – different health care systems will be examined, and their effect on the health status of populations;


4. Power – an analysis of the position in society of both of health care systems and health care professionals.

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week, and 3 one-hour tutorials per semester.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A El-Metwally (Epidemiology) Dr L Aucott (Medical Statistics)

Pre-requisites

At least 200 credit points including 1st and 2nd year Health Science core courses or permission from Course Co-ordinator.

Overview

Epidemiology & Demography: Basic concepts and terminology in epidemiology; introduction to demography; measuring and comparing the health of populations; routine sources of health data; incidence and prevalence; conducting epidemiological studies; association and causality; bias and confounding; interpreting epidemiological data.

Medical Statistics: Interpreting figures and tables; relative risk and odds ratio; statistical analysis of epidemiological studies; statistical inferences and hypothesis testing.

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week plus statistical practicals.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr F Marshall

Pre-requisites

At least 200 credit points including 1st and 2nd year Health Science core courses or permission from Course Co-ordinator.

Notes

Available only to students in programme year 3 or above.

Overview

Students will select an organisation for attachment; attend the organisation’s activities over 36 hours; write and present a report on the organisation.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Written report (50%) and presentation (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Mavroeidi

Pre-requisites

At least 200 credit points including 1st and 2nd year core courses for Health and Nutrition degree

Notes

Available only to students in programme year 3 or above.

Overview

This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of scientific nutrition. Topics covered include: nutritional constituents of food, assessment of dietary intake and nutritional status, nutrition and the life-cycle, the role of nutrition in the prevention and development of chronic diseases, malnutrition, current nutritional recommendations and nutritional policy.

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 ninety minute written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (one essay and one report) (50%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Ms F Douglas

Pre-requisites

At least 200 credit points including 1st and 2nd year core courses.

Notes

Available only to students in programme year 3 or above.

Overview

Concepts of health and health promotion; identifying needs and priorities for health promotion; health education (models and approaches); lifestyle surveys and community analysis; prevention of coronary heart disease; screening (effectiveness); community participation; workshop; role of the mass media; smoking.

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 one and a half-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr L Masson

Pre-requisites

360 credit points BI 20P2 or BI 25M1 or BI 25P2 , HE 3010, HE 3015, HE 3511, HE 3508 and HE 3514.

Overview

This is the taught component of an honours year in the BSc Health Sciences Programme and must be followed by HE 4502. Topics are: Foundation for Nutrition, Dietary Assessment, Nutrient Metabolism, Growth and Nutritional Status, Energy Balance and Diet and Health.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 2 two-hour examination (70%) and 6 continuous assessments (3 practical exercises, 2 essays and 1 literature assignment) (30%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Poobalan

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for Honours in Health Care.

Overview

Topics include: Formulating a research question; research designs for health care evaluation; sampling and sample size; criteria for evaluation; design of data collection instruments, data management, analysis and reporting the findings; qualitative approaches to health services research; systematic reviews and meta-analysis; critical appraisal of articles; getting research findings into practice; writing a research protocol.

Structure

One three-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (60%) and written examination (40%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr E van Teijlingen

Pre-requisites

SR 2501

Overview

This course is designed to acquaint students to the research methodologies used in social and health research. The course includes techniques such as:

- interviewing
- questionnaire design
- content analysis
- evaluation analysis
- secondary data analysis

The course also covers areas on:

- developing research questions
- literature searches, and
- research ethics

Structure

10 three-hour sessions, Monday 9:30 - 12:30.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (20%) and Extended research essay (80%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr V Watson

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for Honours in Health Care.

Overview

Topics will include: basic principles of opportunity cost; economic
definitions and approaches to assessing "need"; distinguishing between
different techniques of economic evaluation; how to measure the costs and
effects of health care inventions; concepts of marginal analysis,
discounting and sensitivity analysis; critical appraisal of articles on
economic evaluations of health care; the health behaviours of individuals;
the organisation and financing of health services; priority setting and
resource allocation; and equity in health and health care.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: in-course assessment (50%) and 1 two-hour examination (50%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for Honours in Health Care.

Overview

At the end of the course the student will have: defined a research question on a given topic; designed a method of answering the question; used that method to collect the relevant information; analysed and interpreted the results; reported the findings in written and oral form.

Structure

1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation on project (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr L Masson

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for Honours in Human Nutrition in the BSc Health Sciences course.

Overview

A project which can be survey, laboratory, clinic or library-based, according to students’ individual interests.
Assessment by project report and oral examination. This comprises 50% of the Honours year project.

Assessment

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

Notes

Open to part-time Honours students taking Health Care Option.

Overview

Under close supervision from a member of staff, students develop a research problem, which they will attempt to solve with the collection and analysis of original data. Students formulate their research problem, review the relevant literature and formulate their research strategy, with an appropriate defence of the techniques/methods to be used.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One written paper (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

40

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

Notes

Open to part-time Honours students taking Health Care Option.

Overview

Under close supervision from a member of staff, students develop a research problem, which they will attempt to solve with the collection and analysis of original data. Students formulate their research problem, review the relevant literature and formulate their research strategy, with an appropriate defence of the techniques/methods to be used.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One written paper (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

Under close supervision from a member of staff, students develop a research problem, which they will attempt to solve with the collection and analysis of original data. Students formulate their research problem, review the relevant literature and formulate their research strategy, with an appropriate defence of the techniques/methods to be used.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One written paper (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

Overview

Under close supervision from a member of staff, students develop a research problem, which they will attempt to solve with the collection and analysis of original data. Students formulate their research problem, review the relevant literature and formulate their research strategy, with an appropriate defence of the techniques/methods to be used.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One written paper (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr E van Teijlingen

Pre-requisites

Overview

Under close supervision from a member of staff, students develop a research problem, which they will attempt to solve with the collection and analysis of original data. Students formulate their research problem, review the relevant literature and formulate their research strategy, with an appropriate defence of the techniques/methods to be used.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One written paper (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr S Brindle

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Health Sciences (Health and Women's Studies) in Programme Year 4.

Overview

Under close supervision from a member of staff, students develop a research problem, which they will attempt to solve with the collection and analysis of original data. Students formulate their research problem, review the relevant literature and formulate their research strategy, with an appropriate defence of the techniques/methods to be used.
One written paper (100%).

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Ms F Douglas

Pre-requisites

Restricted to Sports Studies Students only.

Co-requisites

None

Overview

This course is designed to further explore the concept of health promotion for sports studies students. It is designed to enable students to explore the theoretical basis and current practice of health promotion in the UK. The course will also include a critical overview on the variety of contemporary approaches, which have been adopted in this country and overseas, to improve the health of individuals, communities and larger populations. It will explore the role of physical activity in promoting and improving health, and encourage students to consider initiatives that have been designed to encourage individual behaviour change as well as those that have been designed to influence public opinion and public health policy. Finally the concept of, and the debate surrounding health promotion evaluation is introduced.

Structure

12 three hour teaching sessions (lectures and tutorials.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 one and a half hour exam, (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.