Public health in community settings: An introduction

Introduction

This unit it adapted from Promoting public health (K311)  and focuses on working with communities. It follows on from K311_1 which introduced you to multidisciplinary public health. This unit puts forward some ideas about how to build an initial picture of a community, how to research a community, get to know it, both formally and informally and work constructively in partnership with it.

As you study this unit do record your ideas in a paper-based or online journal. This will provide useful evidence for you to draw on, for example if you want to demonstrate that you have learned and applied public health knowledge to your practice. Your work could provide evidence that helps you to meet the UKPHR Public Health Practitioner Standards (2009).