AS 91304 · 4 credits · External
Health promoting strategies
Evaluate health promoting strategies designed to address a nutritional need
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This is an external exam (sat in a formal exam setting, not assessed by your teacher) worth 4 credits. You are given a resource booklet describing real health-promoting strategies aimed at fixing a nutrition problem — for example, reducing the cost of food in a school canteen and increasing fruit and vegetable options. Using that booklet and your own knowledge, you write about how well those strategies work, considering social, economic, and environmental factors. You need to weigh up the good and bad sides of each strategy and make judgements about their effectiveness.
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- ·Read a scenario and resource booklet describing a nutritional need and the strategies being used to address it (e.g. surveys and posters, guest speakers, a school garden).
- ·Identify the benefits AND limitations of each strategy across social (how people connect and interact), economic (costs and money), and environmental (surroundings, access, local community) factors.
- ·Explain how effective each strategy is — not just list facts, but give reasons and examples.
- ·At Merit and Excellence level, compare the strategies against each other and discuss which is more or less effective and why.
- ·At Excellence level, challenge the strategies — point out what could be improved and draw well-supported conclusions backed up by your own knowledge (e.g. behavioural models of health, attitudes and values).
You correctly explain the benefits and limitations of at least one or two strategies using social, economic, or environmental factors. You make a basic judgement about how effective a strategy is. You use examples from the resource booklet, though they may be brief.