At a global level, there are rising demands for health and social care, limited resources and increasing inequalities in health. Community health assets and needs assessments have a vital part to play, enabling practitioners, managers and policymakers to identify those in greatest need; the physical, economic, social and cultural assets available within the community; and to ensure that health care resources are used to maximise health improvement. For health promotion practitioners, the ability to conduct a community health assessment is a core skill. You will be introduced to the different types of community assets and needs assessments that can be undertaken with local communities. You will examine the history and role of community assets and needs assessments and review a range of methods that can be used to implement and evaluate assets and needs assessments in local communities. You will have the opportunity to complete a community profile and also undertake a community assets and needs assessment.

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

Found the module and assessment contents to be too cluttered and made it confusing and worried most of the times. Some of the reading links didn't work. The assessment requirements were made a lot clearer by more concise information via separate announcements on Moodle from the coordinator who took over from week three.

The evaluation feedback indicates a need to refine the Moodle content and assessment information to enhance clarity and support student learning.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

The unit needs to be completely restructured. The Moodle is hard to navigate due to the organisation of resources, I could never remember where anything was, it is not clear .

This suggests that a complete refresh of the unit is needed to provide clear, effective and easy-to-navigate resources to facilitate student engagement and learning.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

Prefer the week by week content sections instead of the mixed weeks. The assessments were not clear and often confusing. Too much mixing of group work, solo work within the group work and working as a group but submitting separately.

Consideration of weekly content breakdown.

Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments Report

I think the group assessment needs some work. The roles don't really make sense for what the assignment is. It doesn't make sense to our group to have a writer role when everyone is writing their own assessment.

Assessments will be reviewed for the next offering.