1. Critically debate three (3) key public health challenges from the areas listed below on a regional and local scale (UK and NI). Identify and critically evaluate the relevant policy(s) and strategy(s) that are currently relevant to the chosen issues.
a. Alcohol
b. Smoking
c. Addiction
d. Obesity
e. Communicable Disease
f. Non-communicable disease
g. Health inequalities
2. Select one (1) of the following models for health promotion and critically evaluate it. Detail how the chosen model could be implemented by using examples in the environmental health context.
a. Behaviour change
b. Empowerment
c. Educational change
d. Social change
3. The United Nations recognises the basic human right to housing as the right not just to basic shelter, but to ‘adequate housing.’ They define adequacy in terms of legal security of tenure; availability of services, materials, facilities, and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; accessibility; location and cultural adequacy (United Nations 1991). Critically discuss how these factors interact with the role of environmental health, identifying some of the main policies and strategies involved.
The marking criteria for each question is provided below, based on the Assessment Criteria for Qualitative-based work for level 6. The full Assessment Criteria can be found on the Environmental Health Course Support Area on
