Essay Instructions: MODULE: URBAN HEALTH
Essay Title: Tuberculosis as an Urban Health Issue among ethnic minority group in Canning Town, Newham Borough of London. (3,000 words)
QUESTIONS
a) Essay Title ? should include the health issue, target population group and the area. London or New York based papers should look at the boroughs; elsewhere you can just look at the whole city as one study unit.
b) b) Introduction ? brief overview of the urban health issue and signposting to show the sections you will include in the work.
c) c) Rationale of why this is an urban health issue ? identify and explain the evidence including epidemiological data you will use to show why this is an urban health problem.
d) d) Explain the urban context and determinants that you will look at to explain the impact on the health issue. If you are looking at the same topic and borough as before, you can draw on the Urban Health Profile. Remember to draw on the wider context, including London if you are looking at a London borough.
e) e) Identify and explain the public health consequences and implications of this urban health problem that impact on the general populations, on the individual and on the health services.
f) f) Explain what strategies and interventions for addressing this urban health problem you will critique in the paper.
g) g) What recommendations and conclusions you expect to make?
BREAK DOWN AND GUIDELINE ON HOW TO WRITE THE ESSAY - (ALSO PLEASE SUB TITLE EACH QUESTIONS AND NUMBER THEM AS YOU GO ALONG SO IT MAKES IT EASY TO GO THROUGH THE ESSAY, AS I WOULD KNOW WHICH PARAGRAPH YOU ARE ADDRESSING)
1. Essay Title: Tuberculosis as an Urban Health Issue among ethnic minority group in Canning Town, Newham Borough of London
2. Introduction here is an example of what the introduction to look like :
This essay is going to be exploring the following issues in UK particularly in Newham Borough of London, for instants, it will beginning by presenting the Rationale of why this is an urban health issue, this will include the epidemiology data. The following section will provides an urban context and determinants of impact on the health issue. Then this will move on to identify and explain the health consequences and the implication of urban health problem, also to examine the impact on general population on individual and the health services, too draw on the wider context, this will including UK, London and Newham Borough of London and the final section will explain the strategies and interventions for addressing the urban health problem and this easy will critique one or two of the strategies that has been in place to address this issues if is working or not, With brief overview of the urban health issue.
3. IN THE RATIONALE: Why Tuberculosis {TB} is an Urban Health Issue and why you have chosen this title ? identify and explain the evidence, you must be able to -?SHOW justification:
For example, Give a brief national picture of TB globally to United Kingdom in general and narrow down to London and then narrow down to Newham Borough of London, finally compeer Newham with other borough in London, Because of the high prevalent in the area.
? IN THE Epidemiology Data? THIS SHOULD BE ON GRAPH /CHARTS, SHOWING (changes over years) why this is an Urban Health Problem. This will allow the researchers to understand exactly how significant the problem is.
? Please you have to identify what constituting Urban Area ? you must be able to ?SHOW Justification?.
? SHOW Why you have chosen an Urban Health Issue ? For example there is a high level of prevalent or a lot of problem & issue going on, for instant there are some health issue that are more prevalent than another.
? Relate it to Urbanization and the process of Urbanization also what are the implication of TB on health.
? Identify your understanding and the definition on the relationship between Health issue and Urbanization.
4. Explain the context: by comparing and constricting, talk about the background and the population of the Newham Borough of London in brief, ethnic mix, and what is the social economic status of the area? Is this a poor or rich area? Compeer there income level to Chelsea and Westminster Borough of London, also compeer there social economic status, and why you chose the Newham Borough of London ? because the Chelsea and Westminster Borough people hardly have TB because they are rich and live in a good house very comfortable area..
5. Explain the urban wider context and determinants that you are looking at, and then explain the impact on the health issue. . Remember to draw on the wider context, including UK, London and Newham Borough of London........FOR EXAMPLE, Give in-depth of a national picture of TB from United Kingdom in general and narrow down to London and then narrow down to Newham Borough of London, finally, compeer Newham Borough with other borough in London, Because of the high prevalent in the area. {THIS SHOULD BE ON GRAPH/CHARTS, SHOWING}
? Identify and explain the public health consequences and implications of this urban health problem that impact on the general populations, on the individual and on the health services.
? Individual with TB: - for example, Social stigma, no education, no job and HOW ARE THEY AFFECTED WITH THE HEALTH ISSUE, emotional neglected more explanation on this.
? General populations: think about the diseases that come along with TB that can affect the general public, and the impact on the health issue.
? Health services: - How much money has Government spend on TB, it has cost NHS a lot of money (mortality, morbidity, cost to health services} ......Talk about the social - economic factor of Tuberculosis in London.
? Explain what strategies and interventions for addressing this urban health problem you will critique in the paper.
? Give brief background information about the strategies, before now.
? Name the current updated strategies and intervention in place.
? Name the strategies and policy in place that guards the intervention ? make this paragraph link very clear - Because without the policy and strategies there is no intervention.
? The Critique in this essay : - What are the outcome of the intervention, did the intervention work well or not, this should be done by reading Newham Borough of London TB on literature review, and back it up with REFERENCE.
6. Recommendation - In your recommendations and conclusions you are expected to be Practical, Critical and Explode.
ALL paragraph most be REFERENCED (harvard)
Recommended books
Essential Readings in Preparation for this Essay are as follow: Click on the link if you wish to read all or some of the readings:
1. The Urban Health Advantage
2. Urbanisation, Urbanicity and Health
3. Beyond Deprivation and Health in UK Cities
4. Urban Conditions and Population Health
5. Cities and Public Health Crises