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Principles and Practice of Public

TOPIC - Unhealthy Food and Beverage Marketing and Childhood Obesity

Assessment Task: Feedback on Ministerial Briefing Paper

Assessment Task 2 [AT2] is an individual written report that allows you to draw together your learnings in this unit. It involves an investigation of a major issue in public health, and the development of a well-argued effective response to this issue

For this assessment task, you are to imagine that the Australian Federal Government Department of Health employs you. The Minister for Health has requested a series of briefing papers that will provide a clear overview of selected health issues and will guide their decisions in relation to recommended actions concerning these issues, including policy, funding and/or service delivery. Postgraduate qualified employees in government and non- government organisations routinely perform this task in the field. This task therefore provides you with an authentic experience in this type of work expectation.

• ULO1: Describe the history, principles and major fields of practice in public health and apply this knowledge to contemporary health issues and their contexts.
• ULO2: Apply epidemiological, clinical, social, behavioural and other perspectives to analyse current and emerging public health issues, contexts and practices.
• ULO3: Use digital skills and technologies to locate, critically analyse, evaluate, synthesize and present information about public health issues, their causes and solutions.
• ULO4: Propose effective responses to current and emerging public health issues that demonstrate mastery of the underlying principles and evidence-base and disciplines of public health and its major fields of practice.
• ULO6: Demonstrate skills to professionally communicate public health information to a variety of audiences.

1. Choose your topic

You should prepare a briefing paper for the Minister and their advisors on ONE of the following issues/ challenges. You can select the issue/ challenge of most interest to you.

There is unequivocal evidence that children's exposure to unhealthy food and beverage marketing is linked to childhood obesity in Australia. The Minister wants to be briefed on the topic. To what extent is this a problem for Australian children aged 5-17 years? What are the risks to the target population's health? Are there strategies that the Australian Federal Government Department of Health need to consider for combatting disparities in childhood obesity fuelled by targeted food and beverage marketing for this target population? Further, which stakeholders and departments would the Australian Federal Government Department of Health need to liaise with in addressing this issue?

Executive summary and statement of issues

Understanding of the public health principles and practice relevant to the topic

Analysis and integration; Organisational clarity of the paper.