South West Public Health Training Programme

Tutorial: Child Public Health

Date: 11th April 2012

Location: WK Norman Room, Peninsula Medical School, St Luke’s Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter EX1 2LU

 

09.30 – 10.00

Tea & coffee on arrival

10.00 – 10.15

Welcome and overview of the day  

 

Sarah Tickner and Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, SpRs Public Health

10.15 – 11.15

 Session 1: The Healthy Child Programme 0-5 years old

 

Dr. Julie Frier – Consultant in Public Health, NHS Plymouth

11.15 – 11.30

Questions and coffee break

11.30 – 12.30

Session 2: The Healthy Child Programme 5-19 years old

 

 Dr. Julie Frier – Consultant in Public Health, NHS Plymouth

12.30 – 13.00  

Lunch  

13.00 – 14.00

Session 3: The South West (South) HPU’s Children’s Health Plan

 

Linda Churm, Health Protection Specialist Nurse 

14.00 – 14.15

Tea and coffee break

14.15 – 15.15

Session 4: Examples from PhD students from the Child Health Research Group, Peninsula Medical School

 

Andrew Williams: Determination of school-based contextual factors and their associations with the prevalence of overweight and obese children.

 

Katie Reeves:  Validating the Development and Wellbeing Assessment (DAWBA)

 

Claire Parker: the STARs project and the relationship between school exclusion and psychiatric disorder. 

15.15 – 16.00

Session 5: Insights from a Head of Health Improvement for Children and Young People (informal discussion)

 

 

Becky Carmichael, Head of Health Improvement, NHS Devon

16.00 – 16.15

Resources, summary, evaluation and close

 

Sarah Tickner and Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, SpRs Public Health

Learning outcomes:

 

  • KA.1.1 Awareness of available data
  • KA 3.1 Display awareness of current national health policies
  • KA5.3 Debate the strengths and weaknesses of health improvement approaches