‘Child and Adolescent Public Health’ is a module aiming to provide you with an understanding of the development and implementation of Public Health Programmes for children and young people using the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) from England as a model. Learning will adopt a population health approach. Although the teaching will focus on the HCP, international comparisons will be made. The module is designed to provide you with an introduction to the Universal Public Health Programme for 0-19 years olds (The Healthy Child Programme - HCP). Key elements of this will be covered and you will learn to appraise the rationale for their inclusion. This will include introducing you to the concepts of population screening programmes in the context of children’s health, to implementation of childhood vaccine programmes and the factors associated with successful programmes and to sources of data on child and maternal health and their strengths and weaknesses for evaluating and monitoring the HCP.

By the end of the module you will be able to:


	Describe the main components of the Healthy Child Programme for children and young people and discuss the rationale for their inclusion.
	
	
	Describe and appraise how the HCP is implemented and evaluated
	
	
	Access and use different sources of data on child health appropriately.
	
	
	Describe between country differences in the HCP
	
This is an optional advanced module open to Year 3 students on the BSc Population Health Sciences Programme. There is availability for UCL elective students from other departments. However, spaces are limited and are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis on Portico.

You will be attending lectures by researchers and clinicians actively researching in the fields of interest. You will also engage in group discussion and hold student-led group presentations. This module runs in Term 1 of the academic year.

Module leads are Dr Pia Hardelid and Dr Linda Wijlaars

Selected Reading List 


	Public Health England. 2015 Rapid Review to Update Evidence for the Healthy Child Programme 0–5. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-rapid-review-to-update-evidence
	
	
	Department of Health. 2009 Healthy Child Programme
	
	
	Pregnancy and the first five years of life.
	
	
	Department of Health 2009 Healthy Child Programme 0-19 years
	
	
	Department of Health 2009. The two year review
	
	
	UK National Screening Committee https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/uk-national-screening-committee-uk-nsc