1. Assessment task 1 description The assessment task requires students to examine a health issue and its impact or effect at the level of the individual, the community and the population. Then to...

1. Assessment task 1 description

The assessment task requires students to examine a health issue and its impact or effect at the level of the individual, the community and the population. Then to identify key points where changes can be made and thirdly, demonstrate knowledge of the planning cycle and community building strategies in the design and implementation of a plan to address the identified issue. _______________________________________________

The purpose of a poster is to present clear and understandable information using predominantly visual methods. A poster can easily be viewed and aims to stimulate thoughts, ideas, action in the audience reading the poster. An effective poster balances the content (information) and the layout (how the information is conveyed).

2. Assessment details

Format: Poster

Electronic format only (no hard copy)
You are to prepare and submit your poster as one (1) MS powerpoint slide. Reference list is to be included on this one slide. Some templates will be provided which may assist you in laying out your poster. You are not required to use these templates.

Weighting: 50%

Learning outcomes assessed –

LO1 critically discuss the historical context of building healthy communities in Australia, the occurrence of selected health promotion issues across the lifespan; and how these issues are addressed in the National Health Priorities;

LO2 critically analyse approaches to health promotion and evaluation aimed at addressing contemporary health promotion and illness prevention issues;

LO3 critically discuss the role of the nurse in meeting the diverse health and well-being needs of individuals and communities across a range of local and global settings through partnerships between stakeholders, multidisciplinary health care teams, community groups and volunteer organisations.

3. Instructions for preparing your poster

Instructions

Each student will prepare and submit a poster which focuses on a specific health issue and particular demographic.
This is not a group work assignment; each student must prepare and submit an individual, original assignment.

The poster is to address three (3) key elements -
Part A will show the impact or effect of the health issue at the level of the individual, community and the population;
Part B will identify key areas where change can be made to reduce the impact or effect of the health issue on individuals, communities and populations;
Part C will describe an action plan to address the health issue, targeting a minimum of one (1) key area of change, which demonstrates sound planning and identifies health promotion/ illness prevention strategies in the design.

4. Stream A - Submission date, health issue

and demographic

NOTE:
This is not a group work assignment; each student must prepare and submit an individual, original work.
STREAM A
Stream A Submission date: Please be aware that due to the current climate the submission date has been extended from Monday the 30th of March to the 6th of April at 2000hrs.
Health issue – Childhood obesity
Demographics – Select a group of children to focus your poster content and message on, who are living in either an urban, regional, rural or remote area of Australia. You can choose to focus on all children or choose a select group to focus on, for example: Vietnamese, Aboriginal, Somalian, Chinese.
EG:

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  All children living in regional NSW
  

  
  


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  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in rural
  

  
  

  Queensland
  

  
  


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  Children of Vietnamese-Australian families living in the ACT
  

  
  

6. Useful resources - academic

Academic resources

Relevant references: Please note, those resources which are not available through ACU library have URL provided. General
Baker, P., Friel, S., Kay, A., Baum, F., Strazdins, L. & Mackean, T. (2018). What enables and constrains the inclusion of the Social Determinants of Health in government policy agendas? A narrative review. International Journal of Health Policy and

Management, 7(2): 101-11.
Fisher, M., Baum, F., Macdougall, C., Newman, L. & McDermott, D. (2016). To what extent do Australian health policy documents address Social Determinants of Health and health equity? Journal of Social Policy, 45(3): 545-64
About childhood obesity
AIHW. (2017). A picture of overweight and obesity in
Australia https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/45f6ecc6-0caf-4af4- 9ffc-a44c885b33d2/aihw-phe-216.pdf.aspx?inline=true
Chiang, R., Meagher, W. & Slade, S. (2015). How the whole school, whole community, whole child model works: Creating greater alignment, integration and collaboration between health and education. Journal of School Health, 85(11): 775-84. Gittelsohn, J., Novotny, R., Trude, A., Butel, J. & Mikkelsen, E. (2019). Challenges and Lessons Learned from Multi-Level Multi- Component Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Childhood Obesity International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16010030 Gupta, N., Goel, K., Shah, P. & Mishra, A. (2012). Childhood obesity in developing countries: Epidemiology, determinants and prevention. Endocrine Reviews, 33(1): 38-70.
Klish, W. & Skelton, J. (2019) Definitions, epidemiology and etiology of obesity in children and adolescents. A. Hoppin
(Ed.), UpToDate retrieved 30/12/19

Marks, J., Barnett, L. & Allender, S. (2018). Is school community perception of student weight status a barrier for addressing childhood obesity? Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 30(1). Xu, S. & Xue, Y. (2016). Pediatric obesity: Causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 11(1) http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy1.acu.edu.au/10.3892/etm.2015.285 3

About Domestic and Family violence

Australian Government. (2018). Intimate partner violence in Australian refugee
communities. https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/intimate-partner- violence-australian-refugee-communities/references

AIHW. (2018). Family, domestic violence and sexual violence in Australia, 2018. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/domestic- violence/family-domestic-sexual-violence-in-australia- 2018/contents/summary

Gair, S., Zuchowski, I., Thorpe, R., Henderson, D., & Munns, L. (2019). ‘In the Firing Line’: Grandparent Carers at Risk of Family Violence. Journal of Family Violence, 34(4), 321-
329. doi:10.1007/s10896-018-0030-0

Lee, E. (2019). Linguistic Support Services for Immigrant Domestic Violence Victims. Journal of Social Service Research, 45(5), 715- 726. doi:10.1080/01488376.2018.1511502
Sanders, R., & Lehmann, J. (2016). Family violence and its elimination: The search for new ways. Children Australia, 41(2), 85-89. doi:10.1017/cha.2016.10

Satyen, L., Toumbourou, J., Heerde, J., Supol, M., & Ranganathan, A. (2020). The Royal Commission into Family Violence: Trends in the Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking Behavior. Journal of Interpersonal
Violence. doi:10.1177/0886260519897341
Warren, A., Marchant, T., Schulze, D., & Chung, D. (2019). From Economic Abuse to Economic Empowerment: Piloting a Financial Literacy Curriculum With Women Who Have Experienced Domestic and Family Violence. Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work, 34(4), 498-517. doi:10.1177/0886109919868828