Based Learning (OBL) activities to support learning about health inequities, and the value of applying
sociological concepts to understand health issues as social problems.
Choose one of the OBL activities as the basis of this report:
A. Privilege and power in health
B. Social construction of ageing
C. Gendered health
Write a report on the chosen activity addressing these questions:
Describe
Look again at the objects / artworks from the chosen activity and describe the following:
– What is/are the work(s)? Who produced them, when and where?
Interpret
– How did undertaking the OBL activity help deepen your understanding of health inequities as
social issues?
– How did the object / artworks connect to required (and other) topic readings undertaken?
Outcome
– What new ideas, ways of seeing or questions do you have about the ‘social model of health’?
– What elements of the OBL activity might influence or inspire your approach to professional practice in the future?
