Community Health Term Paper Instructions: You must select a risk behavior (e.g., smoking, practicing unsafe sex) or protective behavior (e.g., exercising, going for mammography) and have each of the following areas as subheadings in your paper:
1. Intro/ Public Health Importance: what is the impact of this behavior on the health of the public? (1 page at least)
2. Analysis of Social Epidemiology: who does the behavior (community/population, age,
gender) or who does not, and what are the factors that explain the behavior? (1/2 page)
3. Analysis of Current Strategies to modify the behavior in a healthful direction,
to include: (1 page)
a) to what extent are the current strategies evidence-based;
b) are they working or not working;
c) why or why not?
4. Recommendations for an optimal public health strategy to modify the behavior;
recommendations should be explained within an ecological framework and should
include: (1/2 page)
a) brief description of evidence in support of your recommendations;
b) a specific communication strategy to reach the target population;
c) at least one proposed policy change that will help achieve your objectives
(e.g. taxation, creation of more green spaces, etc.).
5. The last section of your term paper is your reference page. The reference page does not count towards the 3-page requirement. In the reference page you must list all of the references that you used to write your term paper (e.g. CDC.gov, course textbook, newspaper, nutrition and health journal, etc). You will list your references according to the American Psychological Association guidelines (APA Style). For APA guidelines please go to the following websites:
· http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa
· https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
The paper should be 4 pages, typed, double-spaced. An approximate length for each section: Public Health Importance (1 page), Social Epidemiology (1/2 page), Current Strategies (1 page), Recommendations (1/2 page).
You are required to submit two publishs of your term paper to the professor for feedback.
· The first publish is 1 page and will consist of a proposal of your topic and its public health importance as well as analysis of social epidemiology. In addition, you must provide a 1-page preliminary reference page.
· The second publish will consist of a revised and more developed public health importance discussion and analysis of social epidemiology, built on from your first publish. In addition, you will add to this publish analysis of current strategies and recommendations for an optimal public health strategy to modify the behavior and an updated reference page.
· Final submission of the term paper will be the last day of class.
· For each submission of the term paper publish you will submit it on Blackboard in the Assignment tab that I will make available. You will save your file by your last name and the name of the assignment (eg. Vasquez_termpaper_publish1)
Please Note:
All written assignments will be typed 12-pt Times Roman (font size), double-spaced with 1 inch margins