The four samples
Each card links to the annotated page for that assignment, where two or three passages are quoted and the reasoning behind them written out.
Public Health
Model answer
Tackling Health Inequalities through the Social Determinants of Health: Upstream Public Health Action in England
A 2,521-word MPH essay that tests a theory against one real policy rather than describing both. Three annotated extracts show how to evaluate an intervention you broadly support.
- Criticises the evidence for its own position, on method
- Narrows to one policy and evaluates it properly
- Thesis derived from evidence and hedged to match it
Epidemiology
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From Association to Causation: A Critical Evaluation of Epidemiological Study Designs
A 2,314-word MPH critical essay on the question epidemiology exists to answer. Three annotated extracts show how to use a historical case to teach a method rather than to tell a story.
- Uses the most familiar case in the field to teach method
- Designs introduced as answers to specific objections
- Treats Bradford Hill as historical, not current practice
Health Economics
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Financing Universal Health Coverage: A Comparative Analysis of the Health Systems of the United Kingdom and India
A 2,333-word MPH comparative report on two health systems that could hardly be less alike. Three annotated extracts show how a shared framework makes an unequal comparison fair.
- Compares functions, not outcomes, so the comparison is fair
- Decomposing coverage produces a finding aggregates hide
- Defends its choice of comparators on structural grounds
Health Leadership
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Leading Complex Change in Public Health: Leadership Theory Applied to the UK COVID-19 Vaccination Programme
A 2,321-word MPH case study that applies seven leadership theories to one programme and concludes that none of them is sufficient. Three annotated extracts show how to make theory answer to evidence instead of the reverse.
- Reaches a negative finding and treats it as the result
- Tests theory against the case rather than illustrating it
- Analyses the failure that stresses its own conclusion