Unit 8 – Public Health

Assignment 1

Factors Affecting Health ‘Research Task’

This will form part of your assignment - working towards P3, P4, M2 and M3
You should have completed ‘income’ in class. You will now be researching and
completing:
 Housing
 Sickle cell anaemia
 Substance misuse
Remember you must use references for all of your research and statistics and you’ll
have a reference list at the end of your assignment.
Housing
1. What do we mean by this factor? Give an explanation as to how housing can
negatively impact health.
2. What are the short term problems associated with poor housing?
3. What are the long term problems associated with poor housing?
4. How does poor housing impact the individuals that are living in these
circumstances?
5. How does poor housing impact on society?
6. How does poor housing impact on health and social care services?
7. Provide some statistics that look at housing in Manchester
8. What public health policies are there that aim to improve the impact of poor
housing? What is the impact of this?
9. Assess the extent to which the factors impact current patterns of health and
ill health in Manchester E.g. what support does Manchester provide
10.Assess how minimising the factors can contribute to improving the health of
Manchester
Sickle cell Anaemia
1. What do we mean by this factor? Give an explanation as to how sickle cell
anaemia can negatively impact health.
2. What are the short term problems associated with sickle cell anaemia?
3. What are the long term problems associated with sickle cell anaemia?
4. How does sickle cell anaemia impact the individuals that are living with it?
5. How does sickle cell anaemia impact on society?
6. How does sickle cell anaemia impact on health and social care services?
7. Provide some statistics that look at sickle cell anaemia in Manchester
Unit 8 – Public Health
Assignment 1
8. What public health policies are there that aim to improve the impact of sickle
cell anaemia? What is the impact of this?
9. Assess the extent to which the factors impact current patterns of health and
ill health in Manchester. E.g. what support does Manchester provide
10.Assess how minimising the factors can contribute to improving the health of
Manchester

Substance Misuse
1. What do we mean by this factor? Give an explanation as to how substance
misuse can negatively impact health.
2. What are the short term problems associated with substance misuse?
3. What are the long term problems associated with substance misuse?
4. How does substance misuse impact the individuals that are living with it?
5. How does substance misuse impact on society?
6. How does substance misuse impact on health and social care services?
7. Provide some statistics that look at substance misuse in Manchester
8. What public health policies are there that aim to improve the impact of
substance misuse? What is the impact of this?
9. Assess the extent to which the factor impacts current patterns of health and
ill health in Manchester. E.g. what support does Manchester provide to
substance misusers
10.Assess how minimising the factors can contribute to improving the health of
Manchester