Order Number# 15469

Service Type: Essay / Reports / Papers

Academic Level: Undergraduate
Subject Area: Other Subjects /
Deadline: 18/04/2018 – 8AM

Subject Title: Environment, health and wellbeing

Word Count: 2500 Words
Additional Details: READ THE ASSESSMENT BRIEF BELOW

Title: Select a defined community and demonstrate the effectiveness of intervention(s)

and/or strategies relevant to housing and environment which promote health and
wellbeing.

This is an individual piece of work that should be presented in article style, suitable for
publication in a professional journal. It may therefore be presented in suitable article format
including photographs or other illustrations as if ready to submit to a journal for
consideration.

You should refer to your workbook which you can find in the Moodle shell on writing for
publication, ensuring that you write for a relevant professional journal and NOT for a peer
reviewed or scientific journal – therefore your article must NOT contain an abstract.

 The community you choose must be clearly defined (e.g. older people; gypsies and
travellers; the homeless; people with a disability; migrants).

 You should indicate why you have selected this community with reference to health and
wellbeing needs, and
 You should discuss how and why these needs might be effectively addressed through
intervention(s) and/or strategies relevant to housing and environment and the extent to which
intervention and/or strategies have been effective.

(Please note this is not an essay but a word article assignment)

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA- ESSAY

Demonstrate ability to select and justify the use of a marginalised community
Demonstrate ability to investigate and critically appraise the relationships of environment and
housing on health and wellbeing and needs of a community/group.
Demonstrate capacity to critically reflect on a range of factors affecting marginal
communities.
Critically examine the strategic approaches and interventions involved in meeting the needs
of communities.
GUIDELINES

1. Introduction

2. Housing, Environment, Health and Wellbeing: Conceptualise housing as a wider

determinant beyond the individual and its impact upon health and wellbeing. Why is housing
important to wellbeing, health and need? What are the links- any strategic or theoretical
frameworks? What definition/theoretical perspectives/definitions/concepts of wellbeing and
housing will you use and apply to the article? How will it assist in shedding light on the
community and provide a wider framework to locate the communities and interventions you
will choose.

3. The Community and its needs: Think about the type of community you want to study e.g.
gypsies and travellers or homeless people and the types of wellbeing and housing issue they
are faced with. Why would one select this community? Is it a community, for example,
targeted in government policy or salient in current public health and wellbeing
policy/literature?

4. What current strategies and interventions are currently out there that may be successful and
produce effective outcomes as far as your community is concerned? Why is it successful in
enhancing wellbeing, housing and environment? Has it been effectively reviewed and
evaluated. It is likely that the interventions, on the whole, will be local, geographical and
targeted at your community. Is this something which is effective? Does it balance community
versus individuals' needs? Does the community itself report that it works? Are there barriers
and facilitators to successful design and implementation? Of course, not all these
questions/issues will be relevant, depending on your article, but they can provide a backdrop
to helping you to think about effectiveness and non-effectiveness potentially. Don't worry if
they do not all apply or you think of others. Focus and clarity of structure is what a
professional article requires. Practitioners like to know the practicalities and what works or
does not.

5. Conclusion and Recommendations: Articles tend to have a recommendations and

conclusions section to finish off (much like your other essays and projects). What can you
conclude about the effectiveness of the interventions? Can it be improved given specific
housing needs? Might you suggest the need for more research into the community outcomes.
Might you see it potentially as something they the government could make more of given
current policy discourse? Can you suggest anything to assist professionals and practitioners?

Referencing Type: Harvard Referencing