Critique writing public health

PBHL 20006 Individual Assessment 1, Critiques

Due: Week 5

Weighting: 30%

You will write a 300-word critique for each week with a final critique of your learning. These critiques will be submitted in ONE word document.

FORMAT FOR EACH WEEK (WEEK 2,3,4,5)

Harvard reference of article

Haiku or summary statement

Critique

You need to write a short critique of each of your tutorial class discussions/relevance of your article to the week’s learning content. A critique is a detailed analysis of something. This means you cannot simply describe or summarise your article. You need to think about the main concepts discussed through lectures, readings and tutorials and then see how your chosen article applies these concepts. Your critique should answer these 3 questions:

· How does your haiku/article reflect this week’s topic?

· How does your haiku/article compare to someone else’s haiku/article as far as meaning?

· What do the discussed articles mean for the future of public health research?

Now write your critique. It should be approximately 300 words (excluding references).

FIRST CRITIQUE Traditional Research

SECOND CRITIQUE Participatory Research

THIRD CRITIQUE Anti-oppressive approaches

FOURTH CRITIQUE Indigenous Research

FIFTH CRITIQUE

Review your four critiques and the various articles you have read. What have you learned in relation to participatory health research?

· Justify taking a participatory health approach to public health research

· Discuss the challenges associated with taking a participatory approach to public health research

AN EXAMPLE OF A CRITIQUE FOR WEEK 2 CAN BE FOUND ON THE NEXT PAGE

WEEK 2

Pfeffer, M 2020, Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers, viewed 26 July 2020, https://theconversation.com/before-epidemiologists-began-modelling-disease-it-was-the-job-of-astrologers-137895

The Bubonic Plague

Planetary positions

Plagues arrive and end

My haiku this week examines how communities and populations addressed pandemics up until the late 17th century. While astrology has not been a primary source of modelling disease for 300+ years. Pfeffer (2020) states astrologers were integral in the development of medicine and public health, during the Bubonic Plague. Astrologers sought out to find an ontological correlation between the intense periods of fatalities within the plagues and certain planetary positions, offering the first stepping stone for naturalist explanations of disease (Axiology). This is particularly relevant to me now during COVID-19 as I can examine the difference in traditional epidemiological measures and reflect on how dissimilar the outcomes of this pandemic might be if we were reliant on astrology to assess the risk of this pandemic.

I believe my haiku resonates with Myla’s as she touches on the lack of readiness and shortcomings in public health and the current COVID-19 pandemic (Freed et al. 2020) This is particularly relevant to my article as there was a global lack of readiness and many quantitative shortcomings in the determining the risk and severity of the Bubonic Plague as well as COVID-19. Kandel, Chungong, Omaar and Xing (2020) found that nearly half of all countries had a lack of operational readiness for COVID-19, suggesting much needed collaboration between countries to strengthen global outbreak control readiness.

This evidence has exposed the weaknesses and lack of international cooperation in the readiness for global health outbreaks. This suggests public health research must engage in more national and international preparation and planning to reduce the burden of disease and protect the health of citizens around the world. A systematic measurement of outbreaks may help pinpoint critical areas. Data can be cross-referenced for particular behavioural, social and environmental characteristics to determine patterns of infections.

References

Freed, J, Kwon, S, Jacobs El, H, Gottlieb, M & Roth, R 2020, ‘Which country is truly developed? COVID-19 has answered the question’, Annals of Global Health, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 51.

Kandel, N, Chungong, S, Omaar, A & Xing, J 2020, ‘Health security capacities in the context of COVID-19 outbreak: an analysis of International Health Regulations annual report data from 182 countries’, The Lancet, vol. 395, no. 10229, pp. 1047-1053.

Pfeffer, M 2020, Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers, viewed 26 July 2020, https://theconversation.com/before-epidemiologists-began-modelling-disease-it-was-the-job-of-astrologers-137895