public health law and policy

Purpose

A supplementary assessment is provided to support a student’s learning and development, and to aid his/her course progression and completion. A supplementary assessment is not a re-assessment of a student’s overall grade, or the mark for an individual assessment item, or a deferred assessment. It consists of a new item of assessment designed to give students an additional (i.e. supplementary) opportunity to demonstrate their satisfactory attainment of specific learning outcomes.

Grading a supplementary assessment

If a student passes the supplementary assessment, the highest mark they can achieve is 50%, a Pass (PA) grade. A student who fails the supplementary assessment, will receive a ‘Fail’ (NN) grade.

Submission

Turnitin (via the PUBH632 LEO page)

Feedback

No feedback will be provided as this is a supplementary assessment; marks will be provided via email.

Referencing

APA6

Task

Write an essay on the following topic:

A medically supervised injecting facility has recently been established, as a two-year trial, in North Richmond, Victoria. The development and subsequent implementation of this policy has taken more than 20 years to be achieved. In this essay, you are required to:

• Describe the legislation and regulation that enabled the establishment of a medically supervised injecting facility in Victoria. [approximately 350-400 words]
• Analyse the development of the medically supervised injecting facility policy in Victoria. In doing this, you need to discuss the following:

• historical development of the policy until its recent implementation;
• describe the international and national evidence (if any) that was used to support the development of this policy;
• summarise the political and social context that impacted on the development of the policy;
• identify the barriers to and enablers of policy development and implementation;

identify the main actors either supporting or opposing the policy, and discuss their roles, responsibilities, partnerships and interests in supporting/opposing this policy.